Ralph Ordiz
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“But what was happiness but an extravagance, an impossible state to maintain, partly because it was so difficult to articulate?”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
“Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility. Unlike memories, which are fossils, long dead and buried deep.”
― We Are the Ants
― We Are the Ants
“I'm not going anywhere. I hope. It's been an adventure. We took some casualties over the years. Things got broken. Things got lost.
But I wouldn't have missed it for the world.”
― Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
But I wouldn't have missed it for the world.”
― Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
“Because you can only die once but you can suffer forever.”
― We Are the Ants
― We Are the Ants
“But the only thing that we should really be worried about is making our lives into the lives we want them to be. Maybe things don't get better until we make them better.”
― A Very, Very Bad Thing
― A Very, Very Bad Thing
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