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Mave believed that not being able to see your life clearly, to scrutinize it intelligently, meant that probably you were at the dead center of it, and that couldn't possibly be a bad thing. ↗
Чтобы смягчить удар, мне сообщили доверительно, что я даже могу поднять процент евреев, иногда могу нанимать инвалидов, если те еще на что-то способны, то есть могу делать кое-что из того, что противоречит негласному кодексу. Я был в таком бешенстве, что принимал абы кого; принял бы мустангов и горилл, если бы сумел вдохнуть в них хоть чуточку смекалки, совершенно необходимой для доставки телеграмм. Еще несколько дней назад к закрытию оставалось не больше пяти-шести вакансий. Теперь -- три, четыре, пять сотен, они убегали, как песок между пальцев. Просто удивительно. Я сидел и без лишних вопросов брал всех подчистую: ниггеров, евреев, паралитиков, инвалидов, судимых, проституток, маньяков, извращенцев, идиотов, всех сучьих ублюдков, способных держаться на двух ногах и удержать в руке телеграмму. Управляющие в сто одном нашем филиале были при смерти. Я смеялся. Я смеялся все дни напролет при мысли о том, какое вонючее варево из всего этого приготовил. Жалобы лились рекой из всех частей города. Сервис был искалечен, приперт, задушен. Мул управился бы проворней некоторых наших идиотов, поставленных мною в упряжку. ↗
I no longer believed in the idea of soul mates, or love at first sight. But I was beginning to believe that a very few times in your life, if you were lucky, you might meet someone who was exactly right for you. Not because he was perfect, or because you were, but because your combined flaws were arranged in a way that allowed two separate beings to hinge together. ↗
I walk around the school hallways and look at the people. I look at the teachers and wonder why they're here. If they like their jobs. Or us. And I wonder how smart they were when they were fifteen. Not in a mean way. In a curious way. It's like looking at all the students and wondering who's had their heart broken that day, and how they are able to cope with having three quizzes and a book report due on top of that. Or wondering who did the heart breaking. And wondering why. ↗
Once upon a time, there was a boy. He lived in a village that no longer exists, in a house that no longer exists, on the edge of a field that no longer exists, where everything was discovered, and everything was possible. A stick could be a sword, a pebble could be a diamond, a tree, a castle. Once upon a time, there was a boy who lived in a house across the field, from a girl who no longer exists. They made up a thousand games. She was queen and he was king. In the autumn light her hair shone like a crown. They collected the world in small handfuls, and when the sky grew dark, and they parted with leaves in their hair. Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering. ↗
Was it too much to ask that she find someone who wanted the same things in life as she did--a home, someone to lean on when the not-so-perfect times came crashing down? ↗
You think because he doesn't love you that you are worthless. You think that because he doesn't want you anymore that he is right -- that his judgement and opinion of you are correct. If he throws you out, then you are garbage. You think he belongs to you because you want to belong to him. Don't. It's a bad word, 'belong.' Especially when you put it with somebody you love. Love shouldn't be like that. Did you ever see the way the clouds love a mountain? They circle all around it; sometimes you can't even see the mountain for the clouds. But you know what? You go up top and what do you see? His head. The clouds never cover the head. His head pokes through, beacuse the clouds let him; they don't wrap him up. They let him keep his head up high, free, with nothing to hide him or bind him. You can't own a human being. You can't lose what you don't own. Suppose you did own him. Could you really love somebody who was absolutely nobody without you? You really want somebody like that? Somebody who falls apart when you walk out the door? You don't, do you? And neither does he. You're turning over your whole life to him. Your whole life, girl. And if it means so little to you that you can just give it away, hand it to him, then why should it mean any more to him? He can't value you more than you value yourself. ↗
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