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“I want to go home, but home is the mouth of a shark. Home is the barrel of a gun. No one would leave home unless home chased you to the shore. No one would leave home until home is a voice in your ear saying--leave, run, now. I don't know what I've become.”
― Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
― Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
“People use these arguments as reasons for not doing what is right or just. It never occurs to them that they live on the cumulative hurt of others. They want to start the clock of social justice only when they arrived. But one is born into history, one isn’t born into a void.”
― A Map to the Door of No Return
― A Map to the Door of No Return
“You can forever remember the wrongs done to you as long as you live,” she said. “But if you forget ’em and go on living, it’s almost as good as forgiving.”
― The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
― The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
“terrible burden to pretend you know everything.”
― The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
― The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
“I just mean, a story can be beautiful not because of the way it ends. But because of the way it’s written.”
― The Wedding People
― The Wedding People
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