. . . nobody every taught you loyalty . . .
ADAM JOHNSONOrphans are the only ones who get to choose their fathers, and they love them twice as much.
More Adam Johnson Quotes
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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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“A name isn’t a person.” Ga said. “Don’t ever remember someone by their name.
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Like putting a name to my problems would solve anything
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Once the dust clears you will be standing tall, a champion, a victor. NOTHING will be able to knock you down once you’ve taken the biggest hits this life has to offer, so come on life, BRING IT!
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The next day, she was silent. For breakfast, she murdered an onion and served it raw.
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A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.
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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.”
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Conjure up all the strength you have and drive through whatever it is keeping you on your knees. Build up the strength and your knees may never buckle again!
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And secretly, he’d be wise to start practicing the piano. For us, the story is more important than the person. If a man and his story are in conflict, it is the man who must change.
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Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings
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I 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.
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Writing is hard work, and if anything’s true about the process, it’s that fact that a good story is hard to find and even trickier to get on paper.
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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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Life brings what it brings. I might be young but I’ve learnt this: prepare for each blind corner with your strongest shoulder dropped, ready to smash through whatever is thrown at you next.
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But people do things to survive, and then after they survive, they can’t live with what they’ve done.
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