"Romance is all about making a story out of our love"

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“You say catastrophe, I say, fuck yes.”

“...There’s a romance to danger. There’s a romance to drinking, to drugs, to petty crime and to heartbreak and loneliness. All of those things can be used to make the STORY of our lives better.”

“There are jobs I could work, temp jobs, call center jobs, tech support, if I had to. I have before, and I suspect that there will be times in my life when I have to get those jobs again, when I have to make ends meet. But I don't have another career waiting for me. I don't want another career.”

“Now, I recognize that these are very real possibilities." I said. "But let's pretend for a second that they aren't.”

“Fuck politics. I just want to burn shit down.”

“The family that prays together, still probably dies in the fire.”

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"We cannot love unless we have accepted forgiveness, and the deeper our experience of forgiveness is, the greater is our love."

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"I hold he loves me best that calls me Tom."

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"Of course, the power and authority of courts — whether to improperly take policymaking power for themselves or to engage in legitimate decision making — is dependent upon the weight of their judgment.…"

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