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“It’s much easier to be generous with a full belly than an empty one,” they said. I’ve never believed that, though, because I’ve seen that both kindness and cruelty exist everywhere.
“Exert some independence; you’re not a little girl. You can’t let anyone else decide things for you. You have to take care of yourself in this world,” she said.
Affection must be cultivated, Camilo; it has to be watered and tended like a plant, but we’d let ours dry up.
No one gives you anything in life, Teresa would say, you have to take it by force, and as soon as you get careless they’ll take it back.
The journey of life has long and tedious stretches, step by step, day by day, without anything exciting happening, but memory is made up of the unexpected events that mark your course.
