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In high school he had dated almost exclusively bisexual girls—he’d mention sex, the girls would say “bye.”
Obsession does not seek out problems and correct them; it manufactures them out of nothing, feeds them, makes them stronger.
Politics and the press: two cherished institutions that spoke with tongues so forked they could double for fine dinnerware.
But the truth is, we all take facts and compute them through our own experiences.
Some people held grudges; Esperanza clutched them and tied them around her waist and used cement and Krazy glue to hold them steady.
“There is a very fine line between relentless and stupid,” Win said. “Try to stay on the right side of it.”
Mental illnesses are so strange. A physical problem we can understand. But when the mind works irrationally, well, by its very definition, the rational mind cannot truly relate. We can pity. But we cannot fully grasp.
