Marina Keegan quotes
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“What we have to remember is that we can still do anything. We can change our minds. We can start over.”
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“What we have to remember is that we can still do anything. We can change our minds. We can start over. Get a post-bac or try writing for the first time. The notion that it's too late to do anything is comical. It's hilarious. We're graduating college. We're so young. We can't, we MUST not lose this sense of possibility because in the end, it's all we have.”
-- Marina KeeganSource : Marina Keegan (2014). “The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories”, p.3, Simon and Schuster
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“I will live for love and the rest will take care of itself”
-- Marina KeeganSource : Marina Keegan (2014). “The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories”, p.5, Simon and Schuster
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“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.”
-- Marina KeeganSource : Marina Keegan (2014). “The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories”, p.1, Simon and Schuster
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“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.”
-- Marina KeeganSource : Marina Keegan (2014). “The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories”, p.7, Simon and Schuster
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“We can't, we MUST not lose this sense of possibility because in the end, it's all we have.”
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“I'm trying to figure out if I love art enough to be poor.”
-- Marina KeeganSource : Marina Keegan (2014). “The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories”, p.189, Simon and Schuster
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“The middle of the universe is tonight, is here, And everything behind is a sunk cost.”
-- Marina KeeganSource : Marina Keegan (2014). “The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories”, p.7, Simon and Schuster
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“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.”
-- Marina KeeganSource : Marina Keegan (2014). “The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories”, p.2, Simon and Schuster
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“But it became clear very quickly that I'd underestimated how much I liked him. Not him, perhaps, but the fact that I had someone on the other end of an invisible line. Someone to update and get updates from, to inform of a comic discovery, to imagine while dancing in a lonely basement, and to return to, finally, when the music stopped.”
-- Marina KeeganSource : Marina Keegan (2014). “The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories”, p.11, Simon and Schuster
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“I want enough time to be in love with everything . . .”
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“So what I'm trying to say is you should text me back. Because there's a precedent. Because there's an urgency. Because there's a bedtime. Because when the world ends I might not have my phone charged and If you don't respond soon, I won't know if you'd wanna leave your shadow next to mine.”
-- Marina KeeganSource : Marina Keegan (2014). “The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories”, p.141, Simon and Schuster
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“I worry sometimes that humans are afraid of helping humans. There's less risk associated with animals, less fear of failure, fear of getting to involved.”
-- Marina KeeganSource : Marina Keegan (2014). “The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories”, p.153, Simon and Schuster
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“I plan on having parties when I’m 30. I plan on having fun when I’m old. Any notion of THE BEST years comes from clichéd ‘should haves ‘if I’d’ ‘wish I’d’”
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“Let's make something happen to this world.”
-- Marina KeeganSource : Marina Keegan (2014). “The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories”, p.4, Simon and Schuster
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