“Whether you’re an elite or a first-timer, that’s the magic of marathoning, the recognition of your own potential that had been there all along.”
― The Longest Race: Inside the Secret World of Abuse, Doping, and Deception on Nike's Elite Running Team
― The Longest Race: Inside the Secret World of Abuse, Doping, and Deception on Nike's Elite Running Team
“If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.”
― A Prayer for Owen Meany
― A Prayer for Owen Meany
“She told me she met the love of her life,” Zohra says at last, still staring out the window. “You read poems about it, you hear stories about it, you hear Sicilians talk about being struck by lightning. We know there’s no love of your life. Love isn’t terrifying like that. It’s walking the fucking dog so the other one can sleep in, it’s doing taxes, it’s cleaning the bathroom without hard feelings. It’s having an ally in life. It’s not fire, it’s not lightning. It’s what she always had with me. Isn’t it? But what if she’s right, Arthur? What if the Sicilians are right? That it’s this earth-shattering thing she felt? Something I’ve never felt. Have you?”
― Less
― Less
“I want to calculate my beauty to protect myself, to understand exactly how much power and lovability I have.”
― My Body
― My Body
“So many people will do. But once you’ve actually been in love, you can’t live with “will do”; it’s worse than living with yourself.”
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