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Gena Mendoza
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“You don’t have to be cruel to be strong. You don’t have to be mean to seem brave. You don’t have to look down on others in order to stand tall. Having emotions does not mean you’re weak. It means you’re smart enough to let yourself feel.”
“I heard the story of what Pa allegedly said to Mummy the day of
my birth: Wonderful! Now you’ve given me an Heir and a Spare—my work is
done. A joke. Presumably. On the other hand, minutes after delivering this bit of
high comedy, Pa was said to have gone off to meet with his girlfriend. So. Many
a true word spoken in jest.”
― Spare
my birth: Wonderful! Now you’ve given me an Heir and a Spare—my work is
done. A joke. Presumably. On the other hand, minutes after delivering this bit of
high comedy, Pa was said to have gone off to meet with his girlfriend. So. Many
a true word spoken in jest.”
― Spare
“(The fonder the memory, the deeper the ache.)”
― Spare
― Spare
“It wasn’t that she felt no emotions. On the contrary, I always thought that Granny experienced all the normal human emotions. She just knew better than the rest of us mortals how to control them.”
― Spare
― Spare
“I love my Mother Country, and I love my family, and I always will. I just wish, at the second-darkest moment of my life, they'd been there for me too.
And I believe they'll look back one day and wish they had too.”
― Spare
And I believe they'll look back one day and wish they had too.”
― Spare
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Gena’s 2025 Year in Books
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