Somehow she felt like they didn’t have the right to cry in front of her. After all, was it their son who had died?
“There are truths we face and truths we ignore.”
― Becoming
― Becoming
“It was hard to forget the things that hurt you. You didn’t often forget the shape of your cage.”
― Chain-Gang All-Stars
― Chain-Gang All-Stars
“The lesson being that in life you control what you can.”
― Becoming
― Becoming
“Folks be funny lak dat. Dey takes the lies dey want and throws away the truths dat scares ’em.”
― James
― James
“It was like stepping onstage at your first piano recital and realizing that you’d never played anything but an instrument with broken keys. Your world shifts, but you’re asked to adjust and overcome, to play your music the same as everyone else.”
― Becoming
― Becoming
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