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
“I know everything feels hopeless to you in this moment, but this is just a moment, and moments pass.”
― Recursion
― Recursion
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