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That was a long time ago, but it’s wrong what they say about the past, I’ve learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out.
People say that eyes are windows to the soul.
“When you kill a man, you steal a life,” Baba said. “You steal his wife’s right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone’s right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness. Do you see?”
“Children aren’t coloring books. You don’t get to fill them with your favorite colors.”
Very true
that’s the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.
it always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.
boy who won’t stand up for himself becomes a man who can’t stand up to anything.
‘How seamless seemed love and then came trouble!’”
‘They only let you be this happy if they’re preparing to take something from you,’
Perspective was a luxury when your head was constantly buzzing with a swarm of demons.
wondered if that was how forgiveness budded, not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.
