Dual Perspective Quotes

“Unfortunately, I was realizing more and more that to understand my own privilege was to know the misfortune of others.”
― Emilia Ares, Love and Other Sins

“I felt a powerful compulsion to reach out and touch her, as though her body was a familiar place—as though she’s someone I’d known all my life, someone I was relieved to see again.”
― Emilia Ares, Love and Other Sins

“Half the chocolate bar was stuffed in my mouth when it dawned on me: I was totally going to break out from crushing that hard.”
― Emilia Ares, Love and Other Sins

“It was a dangerous thing for me to know what I wanted.”
― Emilia Ares, Love and Other Sins

“I have an idea. Next time, when you’re randomly freaking out about, you know, the world rotating and stuff, what we do is we come here, and we climb on this pendulum thing. And problem solved . . . we’ll be the only two people on the planet who are standing still while everyone else is turning.”
― Emilia Ares, Love and Other Sins

“It was a strange sensation, the thawing of a frozen heart.”
― Emilia Ares, Love and Other Sins

“What do I feel? Like a large winged creature dropped you into my life but forgot to leave the operating manual.”
― Emilia Ares, Love and Other Sins

“It was intimate . . . a strange and beautiful feeling. We were breathing life into each other.”
― Emilia Ares, Love and Other Sins

“But you have to push back against the fear and the only way to do that is by arming yourself with knowledge and practice. Why? Because when it’s all over, even if you die and are rotting in the ground, at least you’ll know you didn’t leave quietly.”
― Emilia Ares, Love and Other Sins