People rush past me to get on the escalator, but there’s never any struggle or confusion. You’d think somebody was controlling them, the way they line up in two rows and get on the escalator. Not only that. The people on the left stand
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“If there was any justice in the world, I'd never have met you, much less have even a scrap of your regard. And for a while... I thought maybe I'd cheated fate to have you near me. That I was bending the rules—forcing some impossible streak of luck—and any moment, you'd find out who I really was, and then you'd be gone. (...) But what a stupid thing to think. Unfair to you. Did I think so little of you? Did I think you couldn't see who I was, really? Was I foolish enough to believe I could make you see something other than what was there?”
― Legends & Lattes
― Legends & Lattes
“It's an ordinary week within the most extraordinary circumstances because apparently – and this is what everyone fails to mention about the grieving process – I still have to live.”
― Maame
― Maame
“Hers was a potent dialect of emotion, rich with meaning, comprehensible only to those intimately aware of its subtleties. Tandri didn’t have to say yes. The language was understood. And when her lips found Viv’s, no doubt could have survived.”
― Legends & Lattes
― Legends & Lattes
“I only suffer a few hiccups, mainly with the printer because they’re all bastards and will likely lead the technological charge in the eventual war against humans”
― Maame
― Maame
“[A]lthough I didn't think I'd be rich, I expected to be happy and the failure to do so has left me gasping for air most of the day.”
― Maame
― Maame
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