And she would say, “Today you believe in God?” And he would say, “Today I believe in love”.
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When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder. Everything moved me. A dog following a stranger. That made me feel so much.
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I’m so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything.
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Every moment before this one depends on this one.
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The hardest part of writing is not to get the ideas but to remember, why it is important to get them.
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We burned with love for ourselves, all of us, starters of the fire we suffered- our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure.
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She had fallen in love so many times that she began to suspect she was not falling in love at all, but doing something much more ordinary.
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No matter how much I feel, I’m not going to let it out. If I have to cry, I’m gonna cry on the inside. If I have to bleed, I’ll bruise. If my heart starts going crazy, I’m not gonna tell everyone in the world about it. It doesn’t help anything. It just makes everyone’s life worse.
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She let out a laugh, and then she put her hand over her mouth, like she was angry at herself for forgetting her sadness.
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Highs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they’re nothing.” “So what’s something?” “Being reliable is something. Being good.
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She said, “Do you have more things that you need, or more that you don’t need?” I said, “It depends on what it means to need.
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Art can be very political but that can’t be the purpose of art, it can’t be the driving force. It isn’t with any of the books that I love, anyway.
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Of course food has an important cultural use in families, but there are things that have more important cultural uses in families, and broadening the conversation out simply from what’s reasonable also allows in other things.
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It was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn’t think about my life at all.
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I’d rather somebody hate what I do than be indifferent to it.
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I never confused what I had with what I was.
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