"So what I'm trying to say is you should text me back. Because there's a precedent. Because there's an urgency. Because there's a bedtime. Because when the world ends I might not have my phone charged and If you don't respond soon, I won't know if you'd wanna leave your shadow next to mine."

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Source : Marina Keegan (2014). “The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

Marina Keegan

#Love Quotes #Phones Quotes #Shadow Quotes

“The heart is an artist that paints over what profoundly disturbs it, leaving on the canvas a less dark, less sharp version of the truth.”
“So I be written in the Book of Love. I do not care about that Book Above. Erase my name, or write it as you will. So I be written in the Book of Love.”
“I believe that the Jews have made a contribution to the human condition out of all proportion to their numbers: I believe them to be an immense people. Not only have they supplied the world with two leaders of the stature of Jesus Christ and Karl Marx, but they have even indulged in the luxury of following neither one nor the other.”

Source : Nicholas Fraser, Kate Caffrey, Peter Ustinov, Carl Sagan, Eric Sevareid (1978). “Aristotle Onassis”
“White performances were always dull in comparison to the astonishing expressiveness of Black dancers. Behind the white person's inarticulate body were centuries of condemnation of dancing on religious grounds.”

Source : Jamake Highwater (1992). “Dance: Rituals of Experience”, p.61, Oxford University Press, USA
“You eat the burger but you don't want the slaughterhouse next door to where you live.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“And pray that he is the man I think he is, he finished silently, and not the man I fear he has become.”
“Hillary certainly needs the black vote, and Democrats need it. She's not doing anything too soon; she's raising her money and not wanting any issues to come back and bite her later. The black vote will be crucial for Hillary and so will the women's vote.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Your future is not ahead of you, it's trapped within you”

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