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“He treated...my scarred as shit past and body as chapters of a book he wanted to hold in his hands and finish.”
― The Chronology of Water
― The Chronology of Water
“The scariest thing about distance is that you don’t know whether they’ll miss you or forget you.”
― The Notebook
― The Notebook
“What I mean by that is: if I wanted to implement something new into my game, I’d see it and try incorporating it immediately. I wasn’t scared of missing, looking bad, or being embarrassed. That’s because I always kept the end result, the long game, in my mind. I always focused on the fact that I had to try something to get it, and once I got it, I’d have another tool in my arsenal. If the price was a lot of work and a few missed shots, I was OK with that.”
― The Mamba Mentality: How I Play
― The Mamba Mentality: How I Play
“If happiness is anticipation with certainty, we were happy.”
― The Bluest Eye
― The Bluest Eye
“I don't have any problem understanding why people flunk out of college or quit their jobs or cheat on each other or break the law or spray-paint walls. A little bit outside of things is where some people feel each other. We do it to replace the frame of family. We do it to erase and remake our origins in their own images. To say, I too was here.”
― The Chronology of Water
― The Chronology of Water
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