T. Greenwood Quotes

#1. And everything with you is always so, I don't know, fucking heavy.

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#2. ... I'm a half-empty kind of girl.

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#3. We pretended she'd only gotten lost in the colors of fall.
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#4. Longing that is deeper than want. It's not as simple as desire. It's more like missing something you've never had.

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#5. This is what I know: memory is the same as water. It permeates and saturates. Quenches and satiates. It can hold you up or pull you under; render you weightless or drown you. It is tangible, but elusive.

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#6. Memory is the same as water. It is a still lake bathed in moonlight, a vast ocean, a violent river ready to carry you away. It can calm you or it can harm you; it is both more powerful and weaker than you'd think. It is a paradox.

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#7. I thought about things stolen from me. I thought about the thieves I had known.

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#8. My mother, stuck in Two Rivers with a head full of unfulfilled dreams, escaped every chance she got via the Two Rivers Free Library - her library card both a passport and necessary currency for her travels.

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#9. We lived among people whose poverty could be seen in the length of their faces, in their tired speech and in the heaviness of their eyes.

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#10. The Chinese philosopher Mencius believed that man is innately good. He argued that anyone who saw a child falling into a well would immediately feel shock and alarm, and that this impulse, this universal capacity for commiseration, was proof positive that man is inherently good.

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#11. Sometimes I felt like the mundane details of our lives were the only things tethering me to the world. I could hold onto them - distractions necessitating action. They gave me a sense of purpose. If not for the leaky faucet, the sandwiches, the bills, I might not know what to do with my hands.

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#12. It is too easy lately to drink too much. To love the warm way it numbs. And I feel Jake watching me; he's counting my drinks too.

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#13. He wreaked havoc, but his path of destruction was invisible. The girls and I were the casualties of an amnesiac.

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#14. Sometimes things need to get broken

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#15. Don't you hate waking up after the day's already started? Jake usually asks, like it's a race. As though by the time I roll out of bed I'm already lagging behind everyone else, as if I'll never be able to catch my stride.

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#16. Hope is really just desire disguised, just desperation, aching, dressed up like a prayer.

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#17. The secret to happiness is counting your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.

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#18. People say we are defined by the choices that we make;

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