1. “Let’s make something happen to this world.”
2. “I’m trying to figure out if I love art enough to be poor.”
3. “I want enough time to be in love with everything…”
4. “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.”
5. “The notion that it’s too late to do anything is comical. It’s hilarious.”
6. “We have these impossibly high standards and we’ll probably never live up to our perfect fantasies of our future selves.”
7. “I will live for love and the rest will take care of itself.”
8. “When a young person dies, much of the tragedy lies in her promise: what she would have done.”
9. “I saw everything in the world build up and then everything in the world fall down again.”
10. “What we have to remember is that we can still do anything. We can change our minds. We can start over.”
11. “I finally understood the addiction of self-deprivation.”
12. “I suppose without a God, NASA is my anti-nihilism.”
13. “We’re our own hardest critics and it’s easy to let ourselves down. Sleeping to late. Procrastinating.”
14. “Secretly, of course, the pauses in our correspondence were as calculated as our casualness.”
15. “I remember finding it extremely hard to open presents as a child because the requisite theatricality was too exhausting.”
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