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I turned the volume up on my headphones, so that I could take in every syllable of my favorite lines, which were about the schizophrenic nature of one’s past meeting one’s present, especially when you had a past like mine.
“It was important for me to understand that I was only a very small part of her picture. She was a person before she was my grandmother, and that was something I had never precisely considered.”
― Handsome Vanilla
― Handsome Vanilla
“Lazy people do a little work and think they should be winning. Winners work as hard as possible and still worry that they are being lazy.”
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“You are my everything. You understand me, Via? Tu es meu tudo.” I understood her. And I knew why she said it was a secret. Grandmothers aren’t supposed to have favorites. Everyone knows that. But after she died, I held on to that secret and let it cover me like a blanket.”
― Wonder
― Wonder
“...our relationship was like a Word document that we were writing and editing together, or a long private joke which nobody else could understand.”
― Conversations with Friends
― Conversations with Friends
“She wasn't loud per se, but she filled a room. I knew she was there before I heard her, and I guess she filled more than the physical space. She filled my childhood.”
― Just Our Luck
― Just Our Luck
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