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‘People think they have babies,’ Paola said. ‘But we don’t: we have people, and we have them all their lives, and we never stop worrying about them. Never.’
“Suddenly evil isn’t punching people or even hating them. Suddenly it’s all that stuff you’ve left undone. All the kindness you could have given. All the excuses you gave instead. Imagine that for a minute. Imagine what it means.”
― Everything Sad Is Untrue
― Everything Sad Is Untrue
“Maybe we get the endings we deserve. Or maybe the endings we practice.”
― Everything Sad Is Untrue
― Everything Sad Is Untrue
“A patchwork story is the shame of a refugee.”
― Everything Sad Is Untrue
― Everything Sad Is Untrue
“When the immigrants came to America, they thought the streets would be paved with gold. But when they got here, they realized three things: 1. The streets were not paved with gold. 2. The streets were not paved at all. 3. They were the ones expected to do the paving.”
― Everything Sad Is Untrue
― Everything Sad Is Untrue
“A god who listens is love. A god who speaks is law. At their worst, the people who want a god who listens are self-centered...And the ones who want a god who speaks are cruel. They just want laws and justice to crush everything...Love is empty without justice. Justice is cruel without love....God should be both. If a god isn't, that is no God.”
― Everything Sad Is Untrue
― Everything Sad Is Untrue
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