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“We tell people to follow their dreams, but you can only dream of what you can imagine, and, depending on where you come from, your imagination can be quite limited.”
― Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
― Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
“Fool Me Twice
I took a risk by reinvesting myself
I took an even bigger one when I began to care
But I tightened the knot of the noose around my neck
When I began to Love you again
You kicked the chair out from under me
So I didn't even have to jump”
―
I took a risk by reinvesting myself
I took an even bigger one when I began to care
But I tightened the knot of the noose around my neck
When I began to Love you again
You kicked the chair out from under me
So I didn't even have to jump”
―
“People think that intimacy is about sex. But intimacy is about truth. When you realize you can tell someone your truth, when you can show yourself to them, when you stand in front of them bare and their response is 'you're safe with me'- that's intimacy.”
― The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
― The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.”
― The Light in the Heart
― The Light in the Heart
“Relationships are built in the silences. You spend time with people, you observe them and interact with them, and you come to know them—and that is what apartheid stole from us: time.”
― Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
― Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
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