To keep someone alive, you put them inside you, you put their face on your heart. Then, no matter where you are, they’re always with you because they’re a part of you.”
ADAM JOHNSONI know it really sounds cheesy, but I did feel a duty to try to tell the stories of people who couldn’t speak for themselves.
More Adam Johnson Quotes
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. . . nobody every taught you loyalty . . .
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The next day, she was silent. For breakfast, she murdered an onion and served it raw.
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What good’s a captive without her captor?
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Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings
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For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous.
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“A name isn’t a person.” Ga said. “Don’t ever remember someone by their name.
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Had she never been hungry enough to eat a flower? Did she not know that you could eat daisies, daylilies, pansies, and marigolds?
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[I]n communism, you’d threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes.
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Today, tomorrow,” she said. “A day is nothing. A day is just a match you strike after the ten thousand matches before it have gone out.
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Imagine a place where not a single person has read a book that is truly about the character at its center.
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Where we are from… [s]tories are factual. If a farmer is declared a music virtuoso by the state, everyone had better start calling him maestro.
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Like putting a name to my problems would solve anything
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Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.
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I am a champion standing over the shadow of my former self.
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Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years.
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