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Hunger for life, for a future, for color—a hunger grown not in a matter of months but years. They say faith moves mountains, but hunger is never far behind.
Those eyes seemed like quicksand: easy to fall into and impossible to climb out of.
“When you’re afraid, put my hat on and remember that the best way to beat monsters is to read science books.”
Peace always has a price .
You can’t buy the important things,
With Marita, I learned women who don’t raise their voices when men behave badly are as bad as they are.
when we were together, she always made me braver.
A second with you is better than an entire lifetime with someone else.”
Being with her was like taking flight, reaching the impossible.
Nonetheless, distance is the worst possible torment for lovers.
Sometimes I thought I was going to go into cardiac arrest. Can love provoke a heart attack?
“You can be sad when you’re with me. I like to see you laugh, but you can cry as well. You can feel however you want.
If we don’t love too much, we don’t love enough.”
His face was my home.
it’s important to remember that an animal is most dangerous when it’s injured.

