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On that long journey she wept all the tears stored in her soul, leaving none in reserve for later sorrows.
“I probably always will love her,” he’d said. “But it was a tough lesson to learn, realizing that I couldn’t wait for her to decide she would love me again. It wasn’t healthy. If I fall in love again, it’ll be with a woman who loves me also—not someone who I have to convince to love me. It’s easier, I think, to love someone you know won’t love you—to chase them, knowing they won’t feel the same way—than to love someone who might love you back. To risk loving each other and losing it all.”
― Felix Ever After
― Felix Ever After
“All men,” Homer wrote, “have need of the gods,” and the secular wish to banish religion from the public square is perennial but doomed—one might as well try to eliminate economics, geography, or partisanship as forces that shape our politics. The more productive task is to manage and marshal the effects of religious feeling on the broader republic.”
― His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope
― His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope
“Sometimes I am afraid to go to sleep for fear that I will wake up and our democracy will be gone and never return.”
― His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope
― His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope
“the most gorgeous thing on a human being. vulnerability.”
― salt.
― salt.
“If you think nothing’s changed in the past 50 years, ask somebody who lived through the Selma or Chicago or Los Angeles of the 1950s. Ask the female CEO who once might have been assigned to the secretarial pool if nothing’s changed. Ask your gay friend if it’s easier to be out and proud in America now than it was thirty years ago. To deny this progress, this hard-won progress—our progress—would be to rob us of our own agency, our own capacity, our responsibility to do what we can to make America better.”
― His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope
― His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope
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