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Aging is harder for beautiful people, and Anna was beautiful.

Everyone else is so successful, and I hate them.

I'm trying to figure out if I love art enough to be poor.

We can't, we MUST not lose this sense of possibility because in the end, it's all we have.

I'm scared of losing this web we're in. This elusive, indefinable, opposite of loneliness.

I saw everything in the world build up and then everything in the world fall down again.

I miss dreaming forwards," Anna said.
"What?"
"I dream backwards now. You won't believe how backwards you'll dream someday.

The notion that it's too late to do anything is comical. It's hilarious.

The middle of the universe is tonight, is here, And everything behind is a sunk cost.

We're our own hardest critics and it's easy to let ourselves down. Sleeping too late. Procrastinating.

When the moon gets bored, it kills whales. Blue whales and fin whales and humpback, sperm, and orca whales: centrifugal forces don't discriminate.

I feel like we can do something really cool to this world. And I fear - at twenty-three, twenty-four, twenty-five - we might forget.

When a young person dies, much of the tragedy lies in her promise: what she would have done.

I suppose that without a God, NASA is my anti-nihilism.

The game meandered on and stories began to take over. It was getting late but going to bed meant good-bye so we pushed forward

Let's make something happen to this world.

I thought I'd be helping the world, not ignoring it.

We have these impossibly high standards and we'll probably never live up to our perfect fantasies of our future selves. But I feel like that's okay.

What we have to remember is that we can still do anything. We can change our minds. We can start over.

something about the stillness or my state of mind reminded me of the world's remarkable capacity to carry on in every place at once.

There are so many places I still want to go, so many things I still want to do!

I remember finding it extremely hard to open presents as a child because the requisite theatricality was too exhausting.

Secretly, of course, the pauses in our correspondence were as calculated as our casualness.

... the addiction of self-deprivation ...

I'm just tired. I'm tired all the time. I wake up and I'm tired, I go to sleep and I'm tired.

Do you wanna leave soon?
No, I want enough time to be in love with everything ...
And I cry because everything is so beautiful and so short.

I want enough time to be in love with everything ...

We don't have a word for the opposite of loneliness, but if we did, I could say that's what I want in life.