Her death hit in waves. Not a flood, but water lapping steadily at her ankles. You could drown in two inches of water. Maybe grief was the same.
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“But we can’t stop loving our fellow man, Pino, because we’re frightened. If we lose love, all is lost. We just have to get smarter.”
― Beneath a Scarlet Sky
― Beneath a Scarlet Sky
“What if one happens to be possessed of a heart that can’t be trusted—? What if the heart, for its own unfathomable reasons, leads one willfully and in a cloud of unspeakable radiance”
― The Goldfinch
― The Goldfinch
“Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are. —BENJAMIN FRANKLIN”
― Small Great Things
― Small Great Things
“Has my watch stopped?” she wrote. “No. But its hands do not seem to be going around. Don’t look at them. Think of something else—anything else; think of yesterday, a calm, ordinary, easy-flowing day, in spite of the nervous tension of waiting.”
― The Rules Do Not Apply
― The Rules Do Not Apply
“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.”
― 1984
― 1984
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