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“We think our hearts break only from endings - the love gone, the rooms empty, the future unhappening as we stand ready to step into it - but what about how they can shatter in the face of what is possible.”

Loss Possibility Heartbreak

Book:Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations

Source: Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations

“Gina Rodgers raised her hand, triggering a class-wide bristle. Everyone wanted to impress Mr. Tipton, but it was Gina who always raised her hand first, like he was going to fall in love with her for her 4.3 GPA or something.”

School Show Offs

Book:The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing

Source: The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing

“Here is the thing, though, the real, true thing I still have trouble admitting: I can't protect you from everything...I can't protect you from spending a lifetime caught between the beautiful dream of a diverse nation and the complicated reality of one. I can't even protect you from the simple fact that sometimes, the people who love us will choose a world that doesn't.”

America Diversity Usa 2016 Presidential Election

Book:Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations

Source: Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations

“And even if Amina didn't yet know what it was to love like that, to burn until your spine has no choice but to try to wind itself around an empty shirt, she understood for sure that the people who said it was better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all were a bunch of dicks.”

Life Pain Grief Loss Of Love

Book:The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing

Source: The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing

“Cooking was a talent of her mother's that Amina often thought of as an evolutionary way for Kamala to survive herself with friendships intact. Like plumage that expanded to rainbow an otherwise unremarkable bird, Kamala's ability to transform raw ingredients into sumptuous meals brought her the kind of love her personality on its own might have repelled.”

Book:The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing

Source: The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing

“Because all of us are so ready to talk about the world we live in. We are ready to have a publishing industry that is of that world.”

Publishing Industry Contemporary Literature

Author:Mira Jacob

“Why do fathers look ungainly in their daughter's bedrooms? Like mythical beasts wandered in from the forest of another world?”

Life Father Daughter Relationships

Book:The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing

Source: The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing

“We took bets on what would bring him down, which is what you do when you're trying to break your own heart before your country does it for you.”

Politics Obama 2008 Presidential Election

Book:Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations

Source: Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations

“They were turning now, panning past the Sandias, the black-green crags and rocky faces, the ribbon of road leading to the white crest. Amina looked down on Albuquerque, the light bouncing off the sprawling tile of houses and pools, the cars running along the highways like busy insects. She imagined all of it gone, undone, erased back to 1968, when the city was nothing but eighty miles of hope huddling in a desert storm. She imagined Kamala on the tarmac, walking toward a life in the desert, her body pulled forward by faith and dirty wind.”

New Mexico Albuquerque

Book:The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing

Source: The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing

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