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“Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.”
― Alex Haley

“Marriage is supposed to be a union between two equals who love and support each other, not a master-slave relationship in which the man commands a docile woman.”
― Robert Thier, Storm and Silence

“A man.
A really manly man with a lot of mannishness in his manliness.”
― Robert Thier, Storm and Silence

“I am a grenade," I said again. "I just want to stay away from people and read books and think and be with you guys because there's nothing I can do about hurting you: You're too invested, so just please let me do that, okay?

"I'm going to go to my room and read for awhile, okay? I'm fine. I really am fine: I just want to go read for a while.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars