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a home is more than the nation one resides in.
Maybe it was an early sign of their incompatibility, these two fundamentally different ideas of what we owe our loved ones.
One would pull close to a building, the other would slip by, and though it seemed physically impossible, the cars never collided. It’s a sort of magic, she thought, to come so close without causing damage.
“Corruption doesn’t have a political party,”
I want to believe in a larger plan. Sure, maybe that belief is a crutch, but how else are we supposed to keep living?”
A LITTLE PIECE OF ADVICE. NO ONE IS GOING TO HAND YOU WHAT YOU’RE OWED, EVEN IF YOU ASK NICELY. BE A MEAN SON OF A BITCH AND DEMAND WHAT IS RIGHTFULLY YOURS.
The true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love.
Stability is too easily confused with love.
Everything happened in the way it was meant to, and the past was the only source to pull lessons from. The missteps you took, not the ones you might have avoided if you’d chosen a different path.
We live with the system we’re born into. We thrive despite it.”
He loved Lorde because she did. He’d never liked hummus but snacked on it regularly once she’d coaxed him to give it another try. He mimicked her out of affection, a skill that must have rubbed off on her. The transitive property of love.
Real life is built on hard conversations and disagreements, not platitudes and omissions.
“That’s all an adult relationship is,” Ana said. “Choosing someone, and then choosing them again and again.”
