“Come to me, squeeze my hand, know my loneliness, and give me the love, the strength to prevail on the perilous road before me.”
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“What I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of gentle, soft, almost invisible acts of compassion.”
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“The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even—if you will—eccentricity.”
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“The heart is the toughest part of the body.
Tenderness is in the hands.”
― The Country Between Us: The Achingly Sensual Political Poetry from a Journalist in El Salvador
Tenderness is in the hands.”
― The Country Between Us: The Achingly Sensual Political Poetry from a Journalist in El Salvador
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