Lauryn
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Grief grinds slowly: it devours all the time it needs.
“Possibly you won’t like to think of your mother as one who lived, but I’ll tell you something: it’s fun to run from one brightly burning disaster to the next.”
― French Exit
― French Exit
“All good parents taught their kids this same lesson: If everyone agreed to suffer pain or death rather than be treated unjustly, greedy people could never again gain power.”
― Reincarnation Blues
― Reincarnation Blues
“I'd rather you came out with your filthy, unfitting language for the rest of your life than for you to turn out one of them cowardly people who can't speak their minds but won't hold their peace and instead mumble behind hands and get their fights out in sneakery and in whispers.”
― Milkman
― Milkman
“He was a pile of American garbage and she feared she would love him forever.”
― French Exit
― French Exit
“As we jumped the tiny hedge because we couldn't be bothered with the tiny gate to set off on our running, I inhaled the early evening light and realized this was softening, what others might term a little softening. Then, landing on the pavement in the direction of the parks & reservoirs, I exhaled this light and for a moment, just a moment, I almost nearly laughed.”
― Milkman
― Milkman
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