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A dream of his: that both of us would eventually find things to do that suited our individual talents and passions—just as long as it was at the restaurant.
Believe what you want, but sushi happens to be nothing but the practice of simple and regimented knife work.
“Guilt is a very important and healthy part of society. All mothers know this.”
It isn’t often we are confronted so head-on with the next thing that we’re hoping will make us happy.
If James would only see that one’s own family is the greatest gift of all, that to be with one’s family is the only reason a person should be able to give as to why any of this life is worth living.
I hoped she could understand what I was really asking, which was, will it ever be easier to forgive family for the things they do? Do the lines become clear between the black and the white? And if so, on what side do we come up in the end?
Family is give and take: When you’re born, you take, and when you get older, you give, more and more, to everybody that gave to you. To them.”
Time was such a stupid fucking scam. I had wasted so much of it. There wasn’t enough anymore to tell myself that I’d done it well, any of it. What’s one guy against all of that? What’s one guy to try to make sense of all of the things that don’t?
