Elaine
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it was that life—and love—can be gone any second. When you had it, you needed to hang on with all your strength and savor every second.
“Relationships begin with honesty, Nechuma once told him. This is the foundation, for to be in love means to be able to share everything—your dreams, your faults, your deepest fears. Without these truths, a relationship will collapse”
― We Were the Lucky Ones
― We Were the Lucky Ones
“I wanna make sure I got this right. Does he mean the same niece I took care of while he was locked up? Huh? The one I took to her first day of school because he took a charge for his so-called boy? The one I held when she cried for her daddy?”
― The Hate U Give
― The Hate U Give
“silly plays instead of simply confronting the usurper that was Claudius: man-to-man, face-to-face”
― The Forgotten Room
― The Forgotten Room
“There is nothing worse, not even the daily hell of the ghetto, than for a mother to live with such fear and uncertainty about the fates of her children.”
― We Were the Lucky Ones
― We Were the Lucky Ones
“What matters, she tells herself, is that even on the hardest days, when the grief is so heavy she can barely breathe, she must carry on. She must get up, get dressed, and go to work. She will take each day as it comes. She will keep moving.”
― We Were the Lucky Ones
― We Were the Lucky Ones
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