Too Late
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“the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”
― Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series
― Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series
“What about that guy you met on Tinder?” I ask Hendrix. “He was cute.” “He pronounced the ‘l’ in salmon.”
― This Could Be Us
― This Could Be Us
“If you understand that every day is a great triumph, a victory over all of the forces that would try to tear you down, then you understand how very important it is to celebrate everything that gives us the courage to keep daring for our greatest selves.”
― Black Girls Must Die Exhausted
― Black Girls Must Die Exhausted
“I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.”
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“What is an "instant" death anyway? How long is an instant? Is it one second? Ten? The pain of those seconds must have been awful as her heart burst and her lungs collapsed and there was no air and no blood to her brain and only raw panic. What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding an hour. I doubt that an instant of blinding pain feels particularly instantaneous.”
― Looking for Alaska
― Looking for Alaska
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