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“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”
―
“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
“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
“I don’t regret anything I’ve ever done in life, any choice that I’ve made. But I’m consumed with regret for the things I didn’t do, the choices I didn’t make, the things I didn’t say. We spend so much time being afraid of failure, afraid of rejection. But regret is the thing we should fear most. Failure is an answer. Rejection is an answer. Regret is an eternal question you will never have the answer to. “What if…” “If only…” “I wonder what would have…” You will never, never know, and it will haunt you for the rest of your days.”
― Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
― Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
“Everyone’s immortal until they’re not.”
― A Gathering of Shadows
― A Gathering of Shadows
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