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“We live in a world where we don’t see the ramifications of what we do to others because we don’t live with them. It would be a whole lot harder for an investment banker to rip off people with subprime mortgages if he actually had to live with the people he was ripping off.
If we could see one another’s pain and empathize with one another, it would never be worth it to us to commit the crimes in the first place.”
― Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
If we could see one another’s pain and empathize with one another, it would never be worth it to us to commit the crimes in the first place.”
― Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
“You are who you are in life, and you either live that time trying to bend yourself to make other people happy, or… you don’t.”
― From Lukov with Love
― From Lukov with Love
“You're the person I don't need to explain myself to - not when it matters. You see everything I am, and you don't run away from it.”
― House of Earth and Blood
― House of Earth and Blood
“That's the point of it, Bryce. Of life. To live, to love, knowing that it might all vanish tomorrow. It makes everything that much more precious.”
― House of Earth and Blood
― House of Earth and Blood
“I want to survive this world that keeps trying to destroy me.”
― Ninth House
― Ninth House
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