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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.
“There is a sacredness in tears....They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition and of unspeakable love.”
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“There is nobility in the struggle, you don't have to win.”
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“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
“O, ah! The awareness of emptiness brings forth a heart of compassion!”
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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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