Michelle Ritota
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“It was rather beautiful: the way he put her insecurities to sleep. The way he dove into her eyes and starved all the fears and tasted all the dreams she kept coiled beneath her bones.”
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“The skill I was learning was a crucial one, the patience to read things I could not yet understand.”
― Educated
― Educated
“I had to learn to live without you and I couldn't make sense of it, because I left so much of me inside of you.”
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“Everything I had worked for, all my years of study, had been to purchase for myself this one privilege: to see and experience more truths than those given to me by my father, and to use those truths to construct my own mind. I had come to believe that the ability to evaluate many ideas, many histories, many points of view, was at the heart of what it means to self-create. If I yielded now, I would lose more than an argument. I would lose custody of my own mind. This was the price I was being asked to pay, I understood that now. What my father wanted to cast from me wasn’t a demon: it was me.”
― Educated
― Educated
“Make improvements, not excuses. Seek respect, not attention.”
― The Light in the Heart
― The Light in the Heart
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