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“Time is a treacherous mistress. In our youth it flows slow and deep; the days stretch out endlessly. When we are children, a summer lasts for a century. As we age, the flow of time speeds up. Suddenly, a year vanishes with the snap of one’s fingers. How quickly time eludes us, how easily it tricks us.”
― The Bewitching
― The Bewitching
“Revealing your truth is like swimming, Benigno. It may not come naturally or easily. But in still waters, it can be learned," he said firmly, his hair painting a rusty halo around his shoulders.”
― When the Tides Held the Moon
― When the Tides Held the Moon
“Don’t waste your damn life trying to smother a spark what wants to be a blaze.”
― When the Tides Held the Moon
― When the Tides Held the Moon
“I dream
of the big dumb heart my mother
hands me. She tells me to carry it.
I drop it every time.”
― Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.
of the big dumb heart my mother
hands me. She tells me to carry it.
I drop it every time.”
― Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.
“Throughout my childhood, I’d thought of these friends’ intimacy as an archetype of friendship. I’d imagined I would have friends of my own, from whom I could ask anything in my adulthood: people of character, which was a denomination my father used. Being without character was how he damned anyone he found lacking in integrity.”
― The Anthropologists
― The Anthropologists
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