The main thing she taught me was that there was no going back to before. There was no later, no “let’s wait and figure something out.” There was only now, all the neediness of the present, hands against your skin, wails filling the room, a
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“I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I found joy in the things that made me happy.”
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
“I’d like to see how the cop responds to a black man wearing a Confederate T-shirt over a black dress.”
― Paper Towns
― Paper Towns
“The senseless destruction that war brings,” he explains. “The ones who always pay the price of another’s greed is the simple man who just wants to go about his life, take joy in his family, and find peace at the end. They didn’t ask for it, don’t understand why it’s happening, but theirs are the lives ruined, turned upside down, families destroyed.”
― The Unsuspecting Mage
― The Unsuspecting Mage
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