Michaela Coel In I May Destroy You (2020) Dir. Michaela Coel & Sam Miller

Michaela Coel in I May Destroy You (2020) dir. Michaela Coel & Sam Miller

“Strange how tightly one’s body could be held, how close to somebody else’s heart, and yet one wasn’t anywhere near the holder. They locked you up in prisons that way, holding your body tight and thinking they had got you, and all the while your mind–you–was as free as the wind and the sunlight.”

— Vera by Elizabeth von Arnim

“Finally, in a low whisper, he said, ‘I think I might be a terrible person.’ For a split second I believed him — I thought he was about to confess a crime, maybe a murder. Then I realized that we all think we might be terrible people. But we only reveal this before asking someone to love us. It is a kind of undressing.”

— Miranda July, The First Bad Man

“after all the terrible things I do how amazing it is to find forgiveness and love not even forgiveness since what is done is done and forgiveness isn’t love and love is love nothing can ever go wrong”

— Frank O’Hara, from “Poem [light clarity avocado salad in the morning]”

“How good it is to love live things, even when what they’ve done is terrible” — Ada Limón, from “The Long Ride”

Gossip Girl (2021), She’s Having a Maybe (S01E02)

Aki: I can’t believe you talked me into this.

Max: Well, then you’re gonna be really surprised at what I’m gonna ask you to do next. Do I have your consent?

Aki: My consent for what?

Max: For whatever.

Venom (2018) + Mark Kermode’s Secrets of Cinema: The Romcom

“For all its familiar tropes, the romcom proves infinitely malleable.“