Leonard Pitts Jr. Quotes

#1. He had not known until that moment that your heart can break with love, that it can fill with such inexpressible tenderness till you just about can't stand it anymore.

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#2. Whoever said the truth sets you free never told the truth.

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#3. Where there are no rights, there are no duties.

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#4. It occurred to Mo that he didn't have any pictures of himself as a boy. Every photo he owned, every memento of his life, was from after. It was as if he had been born the day he left. He had gone out from here and invented himself.

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#5. You could never tell if he was with you or not, so Cooley liked to talk to him just in case. Just to remind them both that this was still a human being. He never wanted to catch himself treating Jack like a thing, a chore to be done.

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#6. Love is a powerful tie, son. At the end, it's the thing that pulls us back together when everything else has pulled us apart.

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#7. When the inky blackness above shades to a deep blue and the stars lose their hard edge and begin to seem unreal, she rises, wrapping the thin sheet about herself, and steps outside into the morning chill.

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#8. Trying to get stuff straight right at the end when you never cared all through your life. Trying to get into heaven on the affirmative action plan.

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#9. Don't nobody like a man they can't figure.

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#10. Sometimes, yesterday says goodbye to you.

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#11. To lose your memory is not just to lose everything you have. It's to lose everything you are. It's to lose your very self. What are you without the things you remember.

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#12. Everything that lived, died.

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#13. Only by vigilance toward everyone's rights do we protect anyone's rights.

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#14. Sometimes, you simply must follow your heart," she said. "No reasonable man can blame you for that." A smile. "No reasonable woman can, either.

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#15. He was numb from aching. And from fear.

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#16. It was skin, she decided. Only skin. And it had no power to add or subtract or otherwise alter her fundamental understanding of her own self.

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#17. Numb. He felt everything. He couldn't feel anything.

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#18. You could get lost in and never care about finding your way back.

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#19. That's funny, isn't it, how you can know him one way and we can know him some way completely different. Funny how a person can contradict their own self.

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#20. It don't matter none where you start in life. What matters is where you finish.

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#21. You think you've reached the bottom. Then you find out the bottom has a basement.

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