“You create these fictional people, and you send them out into the world,” Lisa tells a book group. “And the craziest thing is they come back home, tugging real people by the hand with them.”
“Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was.”
― Handle with Care
― Handle with Care
“Could be you look at something for so long, you see what you want to see, not what's really there.”
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“We ain't what we want to be. We ain't what we gonna be. But thank God we ain't what we was.”
― Doll-baby
― Doll-baby
“Heart thoughts are profound, hindsight aches and hope is obscure. I'm craving a great adventure -- one that leads me back home.”
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“Feeling unwanted doesn't have a timeline attached to it.”
― Doll-baby
― Doll-baby
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