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- That was the sort of everyday love I had to learn to contend with: if you grow up with it, it's hard to think you'll…
- He might have been naive, but he didn't care; he said he's rather die with his heart on his sleeve than end up another cynic.
- He's at ease, his body sculpted to the music, his shoulder searching the other shoulder, his right toe knowing the left knee, the height, the…
- Let it be. Silly song, really. You let it be, it returns. There's the truth. You let it be, it drags you to the ground.…
- So much of her time spent like this: dreaming up things to say and never quite saying them.
- The luxury of age was the giving up of vanity.
- I grew up sort of middle class, safe and suburban.
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