If I canot know your name, may I light a lamp so I can see your face?' If you sould ever see my face, you will lose me forever.' Why?' Psyche wanted to know. 'Are you ugly? Are you afraid I won't love you if I see your face?' Perhaps I am afraid that if you see my face, it will be THAT that you will love and not me.' I understand, believe me. I know what that feels like.
Julius Lester...part of the mind's job was to cast doubt on what the heart knew to be true, and the heart, because it had no words, often lost the argument
Julius LesterJust because she's dead it doesn't mean I stopped loving her or that she stopped loving me. It's just her body that left. The love didn't. โJenna Richards
Julius LesterThe young accept the extraordinary as normal because they do not compare their lives with those of others when everyone is like them.
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