Paloma Lopez
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“How much does one imagine, how much observe? One can no more separate those functions than divide light from air, or wetness from water.”
― The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood
― The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood
“I don’t know how long it takes for me to realize that isn’t going to happen,
that she is gone. But when I do I feel all the strength go out of me, and I fall to my knees beside the table and I think I cry, then, or at least I want to, and everything inside me screams for just one more kiss, one more word, one more glance, one more.”
― Allegiant
that she is gone. But when I do I feel all the strength go out of me, and I fall to my knees beside the table and I think I cry, then, or at least I want to, and everything inside me screams for just one more kiss, one more word, one more glance, one more.”
― Allegiant
“The first step to loving someone else is to recognize the evil in ourselves, so we can forgive them.”
― Allegiant
― Allegiant
“Knowledge is power. Power to do evil...or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.”
― Allegiant
― Allegiant
“Take a person’s memories, and you change who they are.”
― Allegiant
― Allegiant
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