Monat: November 2024

Being Loved for Being Someone Else

… he was loved for not being Simon more than he had ever been loved simply for being himself. (Nick Hornby, About a Boy, 1997, p. 24)

Floating Away from Everyone and Everything

… reading books … didn’t do him any good at school. It was funny, because most people would probably think the opposite—that reading books at home was bound to help, but it didn’t: it made him different, and because he was different he felt uncomfortable, and because he felt uncomfortable he could feel himself floating…

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