“Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.”
― Beloved
― Beloved
“The reason that clichés become clichés is that they are the hammers and screwdrivers in the toolbox of communication.”
― Guards! Guards!
― Guards! Guards!
“She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.”
― Beloved
― Beloved
“A person with a journeying, experimental soul should be living a life that allowed for it. The past wasn’t my fault; of course I had been using prefab structures—not knowing any better—but now I was older and could see my new path clearly, extending from tonight and ending when I died. I get it, I whispered into the darkness. And thank you, I added, because we hadn’t talked in a while.”
― All Fours
― All Fours
“Why does even the best person hold back something from another? Why not say directly what we feel if we know that what we entrust won’t be scattered to the winds? As it is, everyone looks much tougher than he really is, as if he felt it’d be an insult to his feeling if he expressed them too readily.”
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