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"Fear not. It will come. At least I hope it does. And when you least expect it. Nature has cunning ways of finding our weakest spot. Just remember: I am here. Right now you may not want to feel anything. Perhaps you never wished to feel anything. And perhaps it’s not with me that you’ll want to speak about these things. But feel something you did."

— Call Me By Your Name

and when everything else is gone, you can be rich in loss.

-a field guide to getting lost.

"I always thought ‘ugly’ was an ugly word."

— Laura Linney, #Kinsey.

Lady Gaga & Terry Richardson Coffee Table Excerpt

“Sometimes, it seems as though I’ve waited my entire life to be photographed by Terry Richardson. With Terry, the relationship extends beyond the photograph and, if you’re lucky, he will teach you something truly profound about yourself. I discovered through him that shame is an obsolete notion and apology is injustice to any performance. Perhaps it is his kind eyes behind those famous glasses or maybe it’s the giggling noise he makes at 4:30 in the morning, when he’s caught me in bed. To say he’s a free-spirit is a tremendous understatement and to say that he, or I, make people uncomfortable is spot on; we share these things in common however. It is unique to Terry and his subjects that there are no limitations at all.

Read, watch and hear the rest.

"When one door closes, another opens;
but we often look so long and so regretfully
upon the closed door that we do not see
the one which has opened for us."

— Alexander Graham Bell

"Difficulty is normal. We shouldn’t panic or give up when we experience it. We feel pain because of the gap between who we are at the moment and the person who we could ideally be."

— Johnathan Waiter

"When you get bit by a snake, you’re supposed to suck the poison out. That’s what I had to do. Suck all the poison out of my life."

— Cady Heron, Mean Girls