“The heart is a weapon—a self-inflicting weapon—that if not trained properly, can destroy a person.”
― E.K. Blair, quote from Bang
“But maybe people like me aren't supposed to be saved. Maybe I'm just destined to bear the weight of the demons that lurk among the good.”
― E.K. Blair, quote from Bang
“And that's the moment when you realize that hopes and dreams are as fucked up as fairytales.”
― E.K. Blair, quote from Bang
“They say when you take revenge against another you lose your innocence.”
― E.K. Blair, quote from Bang
“I’ve never come across anyone like him. His intensity is entirely consuming, and when I’m not with him, all I can think about are ways I can sneak around to get to him. It’s like he’s the oxygen I need to survive, and when he’s gone I’m suffocating. I don’t know if love is supposed to feel this way, but it’s all I know, and it’s all with him.”
― E.K. Blair, quote from Bang
“Whether or not you’re in politics, everything is political. We all save face for others to perceive us in the best light. Nothing is real until you break down the walls and reveal the ugliness.”
― E.K. Blair, quote from Bang
“How you feel is how you allow yourself to feel.”
― E.K. Blair, quote from Bang
“Because life is not a fairytale, but we all need that one person who keeps the dream alive. You are that person for me.”
― E.K. Blair, quote from Bang
“That's the moment I realized hopes and dreams are as fucked up as fairytales”
― E.K. Blair, quote from Bang
“Weakness derives from the soul. Most everyone has one, which gives a woman like me leverage. Leverage to play people to my liking, and so I do.”
― E.K. Blair, quote from Bang
“There’s something about a beautiful, nearly flawless flower, emerging from muddled water.”
― E.K. Blair, quote from Bang
“His eyes are sharp as he says this, the intensity prevalent,”
― E.K. Blair, quote from Bang
“Soon the happiness will be enough to weaken the control the past has on you, and it won’t hurt as badly as it does right now.” “But”
― E.K. Blair, quote from Bang
“not to lose it. My thoughts rake at my heart, pricking tears that begin to puddle in my eyes.”
― E.K. Blair, quote from Bang
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“At the center of the way black male selfhood is constructed in white-supremacist capitalist patriarchy is the image of the brute—untamed, uncivilized, unthinking, and unfeeling.”
― bell hooks, quote from We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity
“You have the curiosity of a cat and common sense of a goldfish.”
― Susan Dennard, quote from Something Strange and Deadly
“Imagina si contaras los besos que has desperdiciado. Tú sabes, cuando has puesto tu mejilla en vez de tus labios, rodado en la cama después de una pelea, salido corriendo por la puerta sin tiempo para una despedida. Molestamente, cuando no están más juntos son esos los besos que siempre recuerdas. Tantos besos perdidos, ¿a dónde van? Yo los imagino como una colección de cruces en la arena; un cementerio de besos lleno de tesoros enterrados. Algunos robados, algunos perdidos o pasados por alto, algunos descuidadamente desperdiciados, todos esperando ser encontrados.”
― Ali Harris, quote from The First Last Kiss
“It can be hard to say important things to the person in our life who matters the most.”
― Suzanne Woods Fisher, quote from A Lancaster County Christmas
“Spiritual leaders must help their people see beyond God's acts to recognize the way God consistently works with his people, time and time again. To do this, spiritual leaders must develop their own understanding and recognition of God's activity in their midst.”
― Henry T. Blackaby, quote from Spiritual Leadership: Moving People on to God's Agenda
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