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Becoming
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I look back on the discomfort of that moment now and recognize the more universal challenge of squaring who you are with where you come from and where you want to go. I also realize that I was a long way, still, from finding my voice.
“But home isn’t where you land; home is where you launch. You can’t pick your home any more than you can choose your family. In poker, you get five cards. Three of them you can swap out, but two are yours to keep: family and native land.”
― An American Marriage
― An American Marriage
“In teaching your child, do not forget that suffering is good too. It makes a person rich in character.”
― A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
― A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
“It was what God or whatever is His equivalent puts into each soul that is given life—the one different thing such as that which makes no two fingerprints on the face of the earth alike.”
― A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
― A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
“Love is friendship set to music.”
― Once a Midwife
― Once a Midwife
“I look back on the discomfort of that moment now and recognize the more universal challenge of squaring who you are with where you come from and where you want to go. I also realize that I was a long way, still, from finding my voice.”
― Becoming
― Becoming
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