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“…I couldn’t stop thinking that where we stood was the center of something, a place that created the kind of gravity that made galaxies.”

MY HEART.

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A song from the soundtrack got stuck in my head today and then it seemed like a good idea to re-read the whole series. Here we gooooo! 😂

"No one with real integrity tries to sell their integrity to you. People with real integrity hardly notice they have it. You see a campaign that focuses on character, rectitude, probity, and that's exactly when you should start asking yourself, What's this guy trying to hide?"

"What is the function of the heart, if not to convince the blood to stay moving within the limits where it belongs, to stay at home.

Stay at home, stay at home, stay at home.

But restless thing that it is, your blood, it leaps into the world."

"A daughter grows older and draws nearer to her mother, until she gradually overlaps her like a sewing pattern. But a son becomes some irreparably separate thing."

"Whose story do we believe, then?

...We believe the one who has the power. He is the one who gets to write the story. So when you study history, you must always ask yourself, Whose story am I missing? Whose voice was suppressed so that this voice could come forth? Once you have figured that out, you must find that story, too. From there, you being to get a clearer, yet still imperfect picture."

"...The fetish man told her that maybe the Christian God was a question, a great and swirling circle of whys. This answer never satisfied Akua, and by the time the fetish man died, God no longer satisfied her either. Asamoah was real. Tangible. His arms were as thick as yams, and his skin as brown. If God was why, then Asamoah was yes and yes again."

"Do you have a crush on him?" "Not a crush." I shook my head. "More like an inflate. He makes me feel the opposite of crushed. He makes my heart feel like a balloon, like it's going to blow up and fly right out of my chest."

"Whenever I see news stories about children who were killed by their parents, I think: But how could it be? They cared enough to give this kid a name, they had a moment - at least one moment - when they sifted through all the possibilities and picked on specific name for their child, decided what they would call their baby. How could you kill something you cared enough to name?"

"What if there is this time bomb to love. What if it's like you fall in love with so many people who just aren't right for you, and with each one, your heart toughens up, and you have to find the one who is right for you before your heart is completely calcified in your chest?"

"I reach for a story to save my own life. Always."

"If I had her body I would live forever in a nudist colony."

Someone made a Family Circus reference and everyone in the room laughed. When someone makes a Family Circus reference and everyone in the room laughs, I'm in the wrong room.

"Why must we die when everything within us was born to live?"

"Music opens your soul, makes you ready." "Ready for what?" He smiles big. "Exactly."