When you are in the middle of a story it isn’t a story at all, but only a confusion;
“How do you just stop being terrified of getting left behind and ending up by yourself forever and not meaning anything to the world?”
― An Abundance of Katherines
― An Abundance of Katherines
“People were complicated. They weren't math problems; they were collections of feelings and decisions and dumb luck.”
― Beach Read
― Beach Read
“I want to yell so loud that Baby Girl can hear me that dirty ain't a color, disease ain't the Negro side a town. I want to stop that moment from coming - and it come in ever white child's life - when they start to think that colored folks ain't as good as whites. ... I pray that wasn't her moment, Pray I still got time.”
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“Falling's the part that takes your breath away. It's the part when you can't believe the person standing in front of you both exists and happened to wander into your path. It's supposed to make you feel lucky to be alive, exactly when and where you are.”
― Beach Read
― Beach Read
“And that's how it is in real life too. You can love someone and still know the future you'd have with them wouldn't work for you, or for them, or maybe even for both of you.”
― People We Meet on Vacation
― People We Meet on Vacation
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