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sadness
They’d instilled in her a belief that the one thing no one could take from her is knowledge.
Deen smiled affectionately at his mother. Secretly, he wanted to be the first boy to have Joon and had been waiting for the right moment, when his mother was out grocery shopping or visiting with one of her, what he considered annoying, girlfriends.
The worst poverty isn’t about not having enough money to survive. Real poverty is when there is no one in the world who loves you. When there is no other human to make you feel
like you matter. As if you aren’t worth the air you breathe. Poverty of love is the worst thing you can be deprived of. As the hours passed in school
Fear is just our imagination playing tricks on us.
love will win over hatred and life over death.”
was just wondering why we’re being punished.” “I don’t know, girl. We just got a bad deal. Maybe someday we’ll grow up to be something great, and it’ll be because we had to put up with so much shit.”
me.” “No.
He ran his hand over her hair. “It’s not a big deal, Joon. Don’t
bad?” he said, trying to lighten her mood. “No.”
I think that fighting to live is a whole lot better than hoping to die.”
The point is, nobody’s gonna hand us anything—if we want something, we gotta work through all the stuff needed to get it.”
our love is stronger than our need to survive. Our love is our survival.
