-"I'm such a mess." -"i love your mess."
— This is the true and impossible story of my very great love. In the hope that she will not read this and reproach me... I have withheld many telling details. Her name... the particulars of her birth and upbringing... and any identifying scars or birthmarks. All the same,
— I cannot help but write this for her. To tell her: "I'm sorry for every word I wrote to change you. I'm sorry for so many things." I couldn't see you when you were here. And now that you're gone, I see you everywhere.
—One may read this and think it's magic... But falling in love is an act of magic. So is writing.
It was once said of Catcher in the Rye: 'That rare miracle of fiction has again come to pass. A human being has been created out of ink, paper and the imagination.'
I am no J.D. Salinger... But I have witnessed a rare miracle. Any writer can attest... in the luckiest, happiest state... The words are not coming from you, but through you.
***"She came to me wholly herself. I was just lucky enough to be there to catch her."
-Calvin.***
***"You seem really familiar. Maybe we knew each other in another life. Or maybe we just go to the same coffee shop."
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-Ruby.True love is not about having a perfect partner, but rather accepting a whole person with all their strengths and weaknesses.
I understand Calvin, when he freed and let Ruby go, it was a form of rebellion from his ego and his imagination. So that he can get used to reality, because love cannot be forced, he knows that it is impossible for him to control Ruby without limits, love needs space and time.
**This film has something on me. I was sobbing, but I realized, Zoe kazan look so much like Clairo, I thought it was Clairo for a second.
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