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We shouldn’t be so afraid of showing inexperience. Cynicism isn’t interesting; it is often no more than a mask we place over tedium.

Alex didn’t know what lived in boys like Blake. Beautiful boys who should be happy, who wanted for nothing but still found things to take.

I had this immense guilt, this shame I didn’t know what to do with, how to live with.

Never let something trivial, like a sense of humor, get in the way of a good joke.

Fate is just another invention to trick us into complacency. Inaction. If one assumes that they cannot change their circumstances, they won’t try.

Nothing terrified me more than this. The notion that without a choice we inherit parts of us that we cannot change. Cannot cut out.

“Contradiction,” he said, “is the core of modern life.”

Yes, a person is more than their experiences, stacked up like stones. But our best moments are the foundations we use to reach for the sky.