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“Don't give me no 'but you're beautiful on the inside' bullshit."
"No, you are beautiful on the outside," I say.
"Don't give me that bullshit either. I'm beautiful when I say I'm beautiful. Let me own that shit," she says. Her eyes have not left the computer screen this whole time, but I know she's paying attention to everything I say.
"Okay, then you are ugly."
"Thanks for being honest."
"Seriously. That's what we say in Haiti. 'Nou led, men nou la.' We are ugly, but we are here."
"We are ugly, but we are here," she says, almost whispering. "I hear that.”
― American Street
"No, you are beautiful on the outside," I say.
"Don't give me that bullshit either. I'm beautiful when I say I'm beautiful. Let me own that shit," she says. Her eyes have not left the computer screen this whole time, but I know she's paying attention to everything I say.
"Okay, then you are ugly."
"Thanks for being honest."
"Seriously. That's what we say in Haiti. 'Nou led, men nou la.' We are ugly, but we are here."
"We are ugly, but we are here," she says, almost whispering. "I hear that.”
― American Street
“The power of words. They weaseled under door crevices and through keyholes. They hooked into invididuals and wormed through generations.”
― The Immortalists
― The Immortalists
“The thought was this: that all my life had been murk and depths, but I was not a part of that dark water. I was a creature within it.”
― Circe
― Circe
“I know why we try to keep the dead alive: we try to keep them alive in order to keep them with us. I also know that if we are to live ourselves there comes a point at which we must relinquish the dead, let them go, keep them dead. ”
― The Year of Magical Thinking
― The Year of Magical Thinking
“We had gone with David and Jean Halberstam to see the Lakers play the Knicks. David had gotten seats through the commissioner of the NBA, David Stern. The Lakers won. Rain had been sluicing down the glass beyond the escalator. “It’s good luck, an omen, a great way to start this trip,” I remembered John saying. He did not mean the good seats and he did not mean the Laker win and he did not mean the rain, he meant we were doing something we did not ordinarily do, which had become an issue with him. We were not having any fun, he had recently begun pointing out. I would take exception (didn’t we do this, didn’t we do that) but I had also known what he meant. He meant doing things not because we were expected to do them or had always done them or should do them but because we wanted to do them. He meant wanting. He meant living. This”
― The Year of Magical Thinking
― The Year of Magical Thinking
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