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“You should never have to beg someone to be ready for a future,” he says,
“Because I’ve learned over the years that sometimes people, especially men, are more intimidated than impressed by intelligence.
“Sometimes the quietest love is the loudest,” she continues.
“You know that jersey you’ve got with my last name on it? When you see it hanging there in your closet, let it serve as a reminder to you, that soon enough, it’ll be her last name too.”
“How else would you get to live a thousand lives in the span of only one? The beauty of fiction is that it makes you feel things on a visceral level. You can cry with those characters, laugh with them. It teaches you to look at another’s perspective, to have empathy. In nonfiction, you simply learn about something instead of feeling it.”