Sunday Snippets

"I knew ahead of time that if someone looked at me with hate, I would have to allow it, to swallow it, because something in me, something about me deserved it."
--Farewell to Manzanar, Jeanne Wakatsuki-Houston


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"Most of those interned in the United States were native-born American citizens; they were all civilians, imprisoned inside the borders of their own country, without a trial, and their captors were other Americans."
--Farewell to Manzanar, Jeanne Wakatsuki-Houston


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"Marriage is a friendship recognized by the police."
--Robert Louis Stevenson, qtd. in Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage, Elizabeth Gilbert


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"Felipe and I had each learned firsthand this distressing truth: that every intimacy carries, secreted somewhere below its initial lovely surfaces, the ever-coiled makings of complete catastrophe."
--Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage, Elizabeth Gilbert


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Have a great week,