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“The key to your happiness is to own your slippers, own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents you have, and own the ones you don't. If you keep saying your slippers aren't yours, then you'll die searching, you'll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more. Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.”
― Cutting for Stone
― Cutting for Stone
“the way he could walk straight into a party full of people they didn’t know and stick his hand out to a stranger and say, “I’m Nick. This is my wife, Alice.” It was as though he had an amazing skill, like playing a complicated musical instrument, that Alice could never hope to master.”
― What Alice Forgot
― What Alice Forgot
“Most of us are great with change, as long as it was our idea.”
― Still Life
― Still Life
“stayed friends because they could keep each other’s secrets. Now,”
― Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
― Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
“Every day seemed to stick to the day before it and the day after it, never separating itself enough to be memorable.”
― Boy Meets Depression: Or Life Sucks and Then You Live
― Boy Meets Depression: Or Life Sucks and Then You Live
Dismantling the Whitewash
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For 49 years I've read mostly white folks opine on bible, theology, etc. Today I begin a new era - 49 years (let's hope!) with the writings of people ...more
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