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But if there’s one thing I’ve learned in my family, it’s that when you hurt, you gotta ignore it and pretend it don’t exist; otherwise it’ll swallow you whole.
“Dishonest money dwindles away, but whoever gathers money little by little makes it grow.”
Sometimes, when you wanna speed up, you gotta slow down first.
“If you kin see de light at daybreak, you don’t keer if you die at dusk. It’s so many people never seen de light at all.”
Sometimes you gotta give up something you want to get something you need.
“When we lose someone we love, it’s easy to just pretend they was never there. To try and make it easier. But it don’t work, cause they was there. And now you got a big ol’ hole where that person used to
“You gotta fill that hole with the memories, else you might lose ’em for good.”
Instead, I enjoy what it feels like to be in this moment—squished in the booth beside Nia, smiling at Granddaddy, tummy full with chips and cheese and tacos, laughing so hard til my face hurts.
is that he will have to give himself up completely before he can become something new.
