Emma McCarthy
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“He was home, and home was Jude.”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
“There's nothing to protect us. No state, no government, no law, no human rights. Animals have more rights than we do.”
― We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria
― We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria
“Why wasn’t friendship as good as a relationship? Why wasn’t it even better? It was two people who remained together, day after day, bound not by sex or physical attraction or money or children or property, but only by the shared agreement to keep going, the mutual dedication to a union that could never be codified. Friendship was witnessing another’s slow drip of miseries, and long bouts of boredom, and occasional triumphs. It was feeling honored by the privilege of getting to be present for another person’s most dismal moments, and knowing that you could be dismal around him in return.”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
“You won’t understand what I mean now, but someday you will: the only trick of friendship, I think, is to find people who are better than you are—not smarter, not cooler, but kinder, and more generous, and more forgiving—and then to appreciate them for what they can teach you, and to try to listen to them when they tell you something about yourself, no matter how bad—or good—it might be, and to trust them, which is the hardest thing of all. But the best, as well.”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
“If you don't want refugees, help us make peace in Syria.”
― We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria
― We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria
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