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You can't regret the life you didn't lead. (Junot Diaz)
I just want some space to myself every now and then. Every time I'm with you I have this sense that you want something from me. View quote
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Tell her that you love her hair, that you love her skin, her lips, because, in truth, you love them more than you love your own. View quote
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I sat down next to her. Took her hand. This can work, I said. All we have to do is try. View quote
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I never wanted to be away from the family. Intuitively, I knew how easily distances could harden and become permanent. View quote
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Run a hand through your hair, like the white boys do, even though the only thing that runs easily through your hair is Africa. View quote
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She had reason to doubt him; he was real good at planning but real bad at doing. View quote
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... one of those very bad men that not even postmodernism can explain away. View quote
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Artists are not cheerleaders, and we're not the heads of tourism boards. We expose and discuss what is problematic, what is contradictory, what is hurtful and what is silenced in the culture we're in. View quote
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She's applying her lipstick; I've always believed that the universe invented the color red solely for Latinas. View quote
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The half-life of love is forever. (Junot Diaz)
She was the kind of girlfriend God gives you young, so you'll know loss the rest of your life. View quote
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It's exactly at these moments, when all hope has vanished, that prayer has dominion. View quote
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You whispered my full name and we fell asleep in each other's arms and I remember how the next morning you were gone, completely gone, and nothing in my bed or the house could have proven otherwise. View quote
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Each morning, before Jackie started her studies, she wrote on a clean piece of paper: Tarde venientibus ossa. To the latecomers are left the bones. View quote
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A person doesn't mourn forever. View quote
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... and when he thought about the way she laughed, as though she owned the air around her, his heart thundered inside his chest, a lonely rada. View quote
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You said i could call you when i wanted but that you wouldn't call me. you have to decide where and when, you said. if you leave it up to me i'll want to see you every day. At least you were honest, which is more than i can say for me. View quote
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Instead of finding himself in nerd heaven-where every nerd gets fifty-eight virgins to role-play with-he woke up in Robert Wood Johnson with two broken legs and a separated shoulder, feeling like, well, he'd jumped off the New Brunswick train bridge. View quote
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Nobody likes children, your mother assured you. That doesn't mean you don't have them. View quote
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Clavo saca clavo. Nothing sacas nothing, you reply. No one will ever be like her. (Junot Diaz)
Wondering aloud, If we were orcs, wouldn't we, at a racial level, ourselves to look like elves? View quote
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But if these years have taught me anything it is this: you can never run away. Not ever. The only way out is in. View quote
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Colleagues are a wonderful thing - but mentors, that's where the real work gets done. View quote
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As expected: she, the daughter of the Fall, recipient of its heaviest radiation, loved atomically. View quote
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