Dan Shields
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“Listen, if there is a hell, we're in it. And if there's a heaven, we're already there. This is it.”
― Heaven
― Heaven
“Coming?" Dennis held his arm out for her, a patient smile in his voice. She peered up at him, but he was just a tall, blurry shadow. There was talk and laughter and music coming from inside the house. Above it the stars were in a black sky. That black, black sky.
"You all right?"
All those stars so far apart. None of them close. From far away they just looked it.”
― Dirty Love
"You all right?"
All those stars so far apart. None of them close. From far away they just looked it.”
― Dirty Love
“Don’t come yet, boy! You betta hold onto God’s unchanging hand! You betta hold yo mule while you shout!”
― Secrets of a Side Nigga - Episode 1
― Secrets of a Side Nigga - Episode 1
“But when someone’s gone and you’re the primary keeper of his memory—letting go would be a kind of murder, wouldn’t it? I had so much love for him, even if it was a complicated love, and where is all that love supposed to go? He was gone, so it couldn’t change, it couldn’t turn to indifference. I was stuck with all that love.”
― The Great Believers
― The Great Believers
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