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The less you say, the more weight your words will carry. Don’t argue. Never deign to deny. Meet insults with laughter.
Weakness is a guise. Wear it when they need to know you’re human, but never when you feel it.
Don’t wish for bricks when you can build from stone. Use whatever or whoever is in front of you.
Being a leader means someone is always watching you. Get them to follow the little orders, and they’ll follow the big ones. It’s okay to flout ...
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We do our best. We try. And usually, it makes no difference at all.
toes and kissed the scar on his jaw. “I have loved you all my life, Mal,” I whispered through my tears. “There is no end to our story.”
“Na razrusha’ya. E’ya razrushost.” I am not ruined. I am ruination.
“Suffering is cheap as clay and twice as common. What matters is what each man makes of it.
Maybe love was superstition, a prayer we said to keep the truth of loneliness at bay. I tilted my head back. The stars looked like they were close together, when really they were millions of miles apart. In the end, maybe love just meant longing for something impossibly bright and forever out of reach.
Ana Kuya used to tell me that hope was tricky like water. Somehow it always found a way in.
“You are all I’ve ever wanted,” he said. “You are the whole of my heart.”
They had an ordinary life, full of ordinary things—if love can ever be called that.
