because you’re young and don’t know the difference between abandoned and alone just like your mother’s heart won’t know the difference between beat and attack.
“You know that the antidote to exhaustion is not necessarily rest? … The antidote to exhaustion is wholeheartedness.”
― Crossing the Unknown Sea: Work as a Pilgrimage of Identity
― Crossing the Unknown Sea: Work as a Pilgrimage of Identity
“I’ve named everything that I’ve ever owned. Real or inanimate, I have to give it a first and last name. Everything in my apartment comes alive at night.”
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“Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.”
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“And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death.”
― Our Mutual Friend
― Our Mutual Friend
Literary Fiction by People of Color
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