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@marisbcosta

How her eyes look right into yours. How she twirls her hair when she’s reading. How her laugh busts out like she can’t help herself, and she stops being so perfect for just a few moments. She has at least five different voices. How you could live in an ocean of her thoughts and feel like she knows, like, really knows…

ALEXXIS LEMIRE AS ASTER FLORES IN THE HALF OF IT
all that barely repressed longing…
The ancient Greeks once believed humans once had four arms, four legs, and a single head made of two faces.  We were happy. Complete. So complete that the gods fearing our wholeness would quell our need for worship, cleaved us in two, leaving our split selves to wander the earth in misery.  Forever longing. Longing. Longing for the other half of our soul. It is said that when one half finds its other that there is an unspoken understanding. A unity. And each would know no greater joy than this. 

The Half of It (2020)

About me. Some people think I’m the cutest one in my family. Those people being my grandma… who’s dead now. Never mind about my dead grandma. All I’m saying is that I like fries. I like dipping them in my milkshake. Is that weird? It’s actually really tasty. Would you like to try that with me sometime?

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“My mom loved this song… she said every song, movie, story… has a best part.”The Half of It (2020) dir. Alice Wu