Hope is really just desire disguised, just desperation, aching, dressed up like a prayer.
T. GreenwoodWe 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.
T. GreenwoodAnd everything with you is always so, I don't know, fucking heavy.
T. Greenwood... I thought about things stolen from me. I thought about the thieves I had known.
T. Greenwood... I'm a half-empty kind of girl.
T. GreenwoodThe 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.
T. GreenwoodSometimes 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.
T. GreenwoodMy 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.
T. GreenwoodPeople say we are defined by the choices that we make;
T. GreenwoodWe pretended she'd only gotten lost in the colors of fall.
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