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“The wolves of war are gathering,” she recited the first half of the pass code. “They sing the song of rotten bones,” the voice behind the door answered.
“I looked up and felt nothing for you—not love, not hate, not anything in between. Is this what the end was supposed to feel like? There are people who work through it, who fight for one another, who do it for the children. The life they thought they needed. But I had nothing to fuel the fire. Nothing to give.”
― The Push
― The Push
“She should be good, not complain, learn through her eyes and ears, and make her mother proud.”
― Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
― Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
“I know you see me as some crazy old bitch nagging at you,” she said, “but you forget the reason I ride you so hard and give you so much shit is because I love you. Everything I have ever done I’ve done from a place of love. If I don’t punish you, the world will punish you even worse. The world doesn’t love you.”
― Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
― Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
“Somehow, though, people still think that Polaroid pictures inevitably degrade. It may be that the instant nature of the film makes it seem ephemeral or fragile. A 1980 song by the British singer-songwriter Billy Bragg contains the lines, “The Polaroids that hold us together / Will surely fade away.” They don’t have to, though. Many of the first tests, from 1944, look just fine.”
― Instant: The Story of Polaroid
― Instant: The Story of Polaroid
“I spent so much time with my boys, taking them to soccer games, baseball practice, tossing a ball in the yard, making sure they knew how to say please and thank you. We had dinner every night. Marva sat with them if I was off at the firehouse and watched that they did their homework. I always thought everything was a phase. It would all work out the way it was supposed to. That’s what I told Marva because it was how my life had gone.”
― At the Edge of the Haight
― At the Edge of the Haight
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