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“It'll be when you first learn to walk that I get daily demonstrations of the asymmetry in our relationship. You'll be incessantly running off somewhere, and each time you walk into a door frame or scrape your knee, the pain feels like it's my own. It'll be like growing an errant limb, an extension of myself whose sensory nerves report pain just fine, but whose motor nerves don't convey my commands at all. It's so unfair: I'm going to give birth to an animated voodoo doll of myself. I didn't see this in the contract when I signed up. Was this part of the deal?”
― Stories of Your Life and Others
― Stories of Your Life and Others
“Nadal did not just embrace the moment. He gave it a bear hug and lifted it off the ground with its heels kicking.”
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“Nadal did not just embrace the moment. He gave it a bear hug and lifted it off the ground with its heels kicking.”
― The Master: The Long Run and Beautiful Game of Roger Federer
― The Master: The Long Run and Beautiful Game of Roger Federer

“I shed my guilt when I accepted my decision on its own terms, without endlessly prosecuting old grievances, without weighing his sins against mine. Without thinking of my father at all. I learned to accept my decision for my own sake, because of me, not because of him. Because I needed it, not because he deserved it.”
― Educated
― Educated

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