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Collin Powell

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“His eyes were the same colour as the sea in a postcard someone sends you when they love you, but not enough to stay.”
― Warsan Shire

tags: eyes, sea, stay

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“IN the book of my heart, pages keep falling out, many of them marked "Mom and Dad.”
― Darryl Pinckney, Black Deutschland

tags: book, dad, darryl-pinckney, deutschland, family, germany, heart, mom, pages, pinckney

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“So do boys and men announce their intentions. They cover you like a sarcophagus lid. And call it love.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

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“Whereas I, even now, persist in believing that these black marks on white paper bear the greatest significance, that if I keep writing I might be able to catch the rainbow of consciousness in a jar.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

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“German wasn’t good for conversation because you had to wait to the end of the sentence for the verb, and so couldn’t interrupt.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

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