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Manny Arocho
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I scarce know how to put my story into words that shall be a credible picture of my state of mind; but I was in these days literally able to find a joy in the extraordinary flight of heroism the occasion demanded of me.
Perhaps a delusion of grandeur? She is actually left alone to her devices since the uncle almost completely gave her total autonomy to do as she pleases... A very young, inexperienced woman living out in the country of a huge estate with two small kids and really no supervision. She's all they got.
“You won’t understand what I mean now, but someday you will: the only trick of friendship, I think, is to find people who are better than you are—not smarter, not cooler, but kinder, and more generous, and more forgiving—and then to appreciate them for what they can teach you, and to try to listen to them when they tell you something about yourself, no matter how bad—or good—it might be, and to trust them, which is the hardest thing of all. But the best, as well.”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
“Stillness does not mean the absence of sounds, not at all, but rather the tranquillity that allows one to perceive quiet, soft and distant sounds.”
― The Silence and the Roar
― The Silence and the Roar
“None of this proposing via billboard or at halftime at the Rose Bowl. Marriage is between two people. There is no studio audience.”
― An American Marriage
― An American Marriage
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