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“Happiness feeds but doesn’t nourish.”
― Fates and Furies
― Fates and Furies
“Or this: every day they woke in the same place, her husband waking her up with a cup of coffee, the cream still swirling into the black. Almost unremarked upon, this kindness. He would kiss her on the crown of her head before leaving, and she’d feel something in her rising through her body to meet him. These silent intimacies made their marriage, not the ceremonies or parties or opening nights or occasions or spectacular fucks.”
― Fates and Furies
― Fates and Furies
“Logic is a seductive excuse for setting low expectations.”
― Minority Leader: How to Lead from the Outside and Make Real Change
― Minority Leader: How to Lead from the Outside and Make Real Change
“It occurred to her then that life was conical in shape, the past broadening beyond the sharp point of the lived moment. The more life you had, the more the base expanded, so that the wounds and treasons that were nearly imperceptible when they happened stretched like tiny dots on a balloon slowly blown up. A speck on the slender child grows into a gross deformity in the adult, inescapable, ragged at the edges.”
― Fates and Furies
― Fates and Furies
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