“Love can be exploited, I guess, used to manipulate. It's leverage. But I would never call loving someone else a weakness. I think living without love at all, any kind of love, is weakness. And the worst kind of darkness.”
― War Storm
― War Storm
“It’s a powerful experience, pooping. There’s something magical about it. Profound, even. I think God made humans poop the way we do because it brings us back down to earth and gives us humility. I don’t care who you are, we all poop the same. Beyoncé poops. The pope poops. The Queen of England poops. When we poop we forget our airs and our graces, we forget how famous or how rich we are. All of that goes away.”
― It's Trevor Noah: Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
― It's Trevor Noah: Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
“But today I realized that pain and love have a balance. I can feel so much of one only because I feel so much of the other.”
― The Forgetting
― The Forgetting
“We are made of our memories.”
― The Forgetting
― The Forgetting
“I think pain is a thing that, when it fills your cup, you shouldn’t keep pouring from the pitcher.”
― The Forgetting
― The Forgetting
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