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“The really dangerous ones, the ones who are crazy and not crazy at the same time, they give me nightmares.
She points around the corner, then jerks her hand back as if her finger were a periscope that might show her what she doesn’t want to look at again.
Holly waves it away, and then says something so much a part of her that it seems neither ridiculously overmodest nor in the slightest extraordinary. “I don’t care about credit, I just like to find answers.”
“Early on, when I was getting to know her, we read a poem by Vachel Lindsay called ‘The Congo.’ It’s racist as hell, but it has a swinging beat.”
It’s not courage she lacks, it’s the fundamental self-worth necessary to call someone out on their hurtful behavior.
deeply religious people in every sect or faith can always find justification for what they want to do in one holy book or another.
Once you meant to do it, you couldn’t let your conscious mind in on the secret. In AA they said slip stood for something lousy I planned.
