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“We cats must look like reckless lightning to a turtle.”

“People think a tattoo is an act of rebellion or something, but, actually, it’s a form of storytelling.”

“It’s funny how old you think your parents are when you’re a child.”

“I wanted to tell Betty’s granddaughter that it wasn’t too late. That I had been like her, once, resentful of any interruptions. Later, I learned that life lay in the interruptions - that I had been wrong about life, entirely.”

“Love is lak de sea. It’s uh movin’ thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.”

Human lives were short and fragile. Time and illnesses consumed us, like flames burning away these pieces of wood. But it didn’t matter how long or short we lived. It mattered more how much light we were able to shed on those we loved and how many people we touched with our compassion.

“Some baldy fuck with a head on him like a thumb clicked his fingers in my face earlier when I took too long making his ristretto.”

“We had stepped into the river that takes you forward.”

“This is a war. Your position will rise, and fall, and you will torture yourself until your last days if you do anything other than trust in what God decides.”

“A chance?” [Northampton] said to Warwick. “A chance is letting out a fart at the king’s table while the chaplain is saying grace.”

“But he would take his own grief elsewhere and spend it in the world until it was a thin, tinny pang.”

“‘Perfection of the life or of the work’ — I could only do the one [work]. I hope you don’t make that mistake.”

“They don’t call [glitter] the herpes of crafting for nothing.”

But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.

She thinks - she knows - that she’s changed, and she has; though less to me than to anybody else. *** But I’d put it like this: she sees only what’s gone, I see what’s stayed the same. *** But it’s still the eyes we look at, isn’t it? That’s where we found the other person, and find them still.