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I need to share a line from Seymour: An Introduction that made me tear up a little on the plane ride back from Amsterdam. I should probably talk more about the trip itself, but duckling got so many of the highlights down so well that I fear I'd just be repeating her, so I'm going to... stop being so self-aware and just post the damn quote.

...our sister Boo Boo. Seymour was wild about her. Which isn't saying a great deal, since he was wild about everybody in the family and most people outside it.

Earlier on, I had underlined,

But from watching the guests for some three hours, from grinning at them, from, I think, loving them, Seymour--without asking any questions first-- brought very nearly all the guests, one or two at a time, and without any mistakes, their own true coats...

Seymour loves everyone.

So it's okay. It's okay. It's okay.

I think I have a very simple mind and I think I don't care right now.

...and I want to add that it doesn't invalidate my love, this fact that I'm dancing around. Just because I appear to love everyone doesn't mean that my reasons for loving you (most people reading this) are somehow cheap or false or showy. I'm incredibly intelligent when it comes to love and I know very well that everyone I love is simply the most spectacular person in the universe. Each one, the one and only. My mind accepts this doublethink, and yours should too, for my mind is not as keen as yours.

Why are you in Tavie's head? 11:07 AM | shower me with attention