“The moment you think you're on top is the moment you've lost your passion.”
“The Sugar Plum Fairy has the farthest to fall.”
“Don't carry worries around," she always says. "They're heavy.”
“My heart is flailing, thumping in my chest like a bird caught in a cage, wanting to be wild again.”
“Because I’m black?” I straight out ask, hating that being different can be a code word for being black, for something that isn’t white. “No”—he”
“I don't care about being happy. Only about being the best.”
“When you go against fate, the result can be dangerous.”
“You can't trust anyone - I learned that the hard way.”
“This is crazy. Only psychopaths do this. This is some serial killer–type stuff.”
“Get busy living or get busy dying.”
“Into this wild Abyss/ The womb of Nature, and perhaps her grave--/ Of neither sea, nor shore, nor air, nor fire,/ But all these in their pregnant causes mixed/ Confusedly, and which thus must ever fight,/ Unless the Almighty Maker them ordain/ His dark materials to create more worlds,--/ Into this wild Abyss the wary Fiend/ Stood on the brink of Hell and looked a while,/ Pondering his voyage; for no narrow frith/ He had to cross. ”
“If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?”
“Being afraid you'll look like a coward is the worst reason for doing anything.”
“The thing about a story is that you dream it as you tell it, hoping that others might then dream along with you, and in this way memory and imagination and language combine to make spirits in the head. There is the illusion of aliveness.”
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