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“For all its ridiculous imperfections, life is pretty damn perfect sometimes.”
“There was no going back to the way things were, because all you ever got was the way things are.”
“It seemed everything that had ever lived and died in this world had passed through here, had left its indelible imprint.”
“Through pictures, we cut reality in pieces. We selected only the choicest moments, discarding the rest as if they'd never happened.”
“Family tragedies had a way of smashing everything apart and then gluing it all back together. The problem was no one ever knew how long the glue would hold.”
“But I knew he wouldn't kiss me. Not tonight. Not like this. There was too much between us now, all the words and near misses. All the potential, the alternate futures that would stretch out before ...”
“You ask me why Im nice to you, he said. Why, why, why. But you dont ask me stuff that matters. Who I am or where I been. What I see when I look at you. What I want.”
“They say you can never step into the same river twice. And maybe that's how it was for Papi now, memories shifting and re-forming soundlessly beneath him while the rest of us sat on the shore and w...”
“You ask me why I’m nice to you,” he said. “Why, why, why. But you don’t ask me stuff that matters. Who I am or where I been. What I see when I look at you. What I want.”
