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“The world is as wide as the chances that come our way. Take an opportunity, and it leads to more opportunity, and so on. The world opens up, like wings or...something.”
“We are all eternally surrounded by our own past and our own future.”
Funny how a simple act of decency makes me feel worth something. Who have I really helped this afternoon? We are what we do, it seems.
“None of us can change the world to suit us. We can only change ourselves.”
“Change will require a conscious effort. You’ll be pushing against the weight of your own history.”
“What does that mean?” “Like walking against the wind. When you begin to do something different, there is a resistance. It is easier to walk on a path already there than it is to cut a new one.”
“Unless you fight, you’ll be following the exact route ...
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He bends double in the belief that I’m joking. “It’s just a deal, this marriage thing. That’s what you have to understand. You’ve got to act like you’re a one-woman man. Dote on her, buy shit for her, look like you’re house-trained in front of her friends, pretend like you worship her more than her mates’ husbands do. Do all that, yeah?”
“Good decisions lead to good decisions, just as bad decisions beget more bad decisions. Worth bearing in mind.”
A realization strikes me: that the worst our enemies can do is turn us into them. That, surely, is the greatest victory they can ever score.
The worst our enemies can ever do is to turn us into them.
“Keep it up. Strain at the weight of your history.”
change is born of committing to living differently?
the gift of a day early in my life, before the rot.
We hold each other tight. I cry for who is to come, and for who we are bound to lose. This life gives, and it takes away. In balance. Love undying.
“Stop attacking yourself,” he says, a man tiring of me. “When will you see it? How that’s precisely what’s caused you so much of your trouble.”
