“A message is not delivered until it is understood.”
“Fool, there is no sense in trying to play that game with the past. Here is where we are today, and we can only make our moves from here.”
“The fight isn't over until you win it...That's all you have to remember. No matter what the other man thinks.”
“Sometimes I wonder about that grip. The hand was hard and rough, trapping mine within it. And yet it was warm, and not unkind, as it held mine. Only firm. It did not let me slip on the icy streets, but it did not let me escape my fate, either.”
“I wondered if there were any way to live amongst other people and refuse to be harnessed by their expectations and dependencies.”
“It was an impressive display of good food abused in the name of fashionable cooking.”
“They sometimes forgot what happened if you let a pawn get all the way up the board.”
“C'mon, Libby…I don't have room for wherever this might be headed, so why not end it while we're both ahead?”
“All your life you’re told you’re unique. An individual. That no one on the planet is just like you. It’s humanity’s anthem.”
“It may not be your dream, Stepsister, but do not scoff at those who do dream of it.”
“My brain is a vast, barren, jokeless plain where wolves howl at the moon over rocky overhangs and the wind kicks up twists of sand and tumbleweed.”
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