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"You have so many layers, that you can peel away a few, and everyone's so shocked or impressed that you're baring your soul, while to you it's nothing, because you know you've twenty more layers to go."
"Maybe I'm sad about wanting you. I'm not too comfortable with wanting someone."
"Shame is always easier to handle if you have someone to share it with."
"Edward Said talks about Orientalism in very negative terms because it reflects the prejudices of the west towards the exotic east. But I was also having fun thinking of Orientalism as a genre like Cowboys and Indians is a genre – they’re not an accurate representation of the American west, they’re like a fairy tale genre."
"How satisfying it is to leave a mark on a blank surface. To make a map of my movement - no matter how temporary."
"Even a mistake is better than nothing."
"Sometimes, upon waking, the residual dream can be more appealing that reality, and one is reluctant to give it up. For a while, you feel like a ghost -- Not fully materialized, and unable to manipulate your surroundings. Or else, it is the dream that haunts you. You wait with the promise of the next dream."
"and yet I feel that the most real home I'll ever have is the space where our roads merged and traveled along together... for a time."
"Pressed against her I can hear eternity -- hollow, lonely spaces and currents that churn ceaselessly, and the fallen snow welcomes the falling snow with a whispered "Hush"."
"For what matters if I gain the whole world, but lose my soul?"
"Her lips tarried at mine. Baiting each other with the warmth of our breath, barely grazing, detouring, then connecting."
"I was grateful for cereal --- the only food that my tummy, riddled by pangs of infatuation, could handle."
"Which is scarier-- lust or temptation?"
"I love the sea because it is boundless."
"You're more than a story."
"I wanted a heaven. And I grew up striving for that world-- an eternal world- that would wash away my temporary misery."
"At night, lying on your back and staring at the falling snow, it's easy to imagine oneself soaring through the stars."
"Something about being rejected at Church Camp felt so much more awful than being rejected at school."
"The question is not, could Utah compete week in and week out in the ACC, SEC, Big Ten, whatever, .. The question is, in a one- game setting, can Utah compete, can Utah get the market share, sell the tickets of one of those more familiar institutions. Nobody knows that answer."
"On my first visit to the public library, I was like a kid at a candy store where all the candy was free. I gorged myself until my tummy ached."