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She took away my yesterdays. But that's OK. Because now I am a person made of tomorrows.

Behind the mountain is another mountain; behind the fire is another fire.

In darkness, I count my blessings like Manman taught me.
One: I am alive.
Two: there is no two.

It's like she had a soul that was much too big for her; it filled her to the brim till there was no more space, so it flowed out through her eyes.

Every generation that goes into your genes is a generation of fighters, of survivors. And all those millions of lives are in you, in your blood.

When guys in black Cadillacs drive you to some random building and lock you in what amounts to a cell, you know that shit just got real.

No one is too old for fairy tales.

Think of this as the most screwed-up love letter ever.

I mean, she was just cool, you know? And she didn't even mean to be. She was just a hundred-watt lightbulb in a world of forty-watt bulbs. She shone.

But here's the thing:
The something new, it isn't necessarily bad. In fact, in some ways, maybe it's better.

Hi, I said, IN SCINTILLATING DIALOGUE REMINISCENT OF THE CLASSIC MOVIE CASABLANCA.

It is easier to trick with charm than with aggression.

What is with people who don't read novels? I mean, what kind of life is that?

He owns them more completely than if he had seized their balls in his hands

Because things might be meant to happen.
Because an order might exits, under the chaos.
Because the universe might be playing a tune.

Reading is awesome. Just escaping into someone else's life, into another world. In books, everything is possible.