Maame
Jessica George
Top 10 Best Quotes
“I don't think you turn thirty and become immune to mistake-making or lesson learning. You grow wiser (supposedly) but never omniscient. There's always something you need to be taught, and so you keep learning and you keep growing up- until you're dead.”
“You're Christian Shu. Do you always believe in God? Yeah, of course. Got To. Why? Because, she says. I can't carry on living believing human beings are as good as it gets. She looks at me. We're the worst.”
“We grow up fast. Not by force, but because we are needed.' 'I think sometimes we're needed for the wrong reasons.”
“Everyone talks about the importance of standing out but never the benefits of fitting in.”
“It's about what love is. Which is trust, commitment, empathy, and respect. It means really giving a shit about the other person.”
“How do you know if you're genuinely happy or if you're just mostly all right, with sprinkles of laughter and occasional shit storms of sadness?”
“Thing is, you don't ever go back Maddie, to life before, and my advice is to accept that. To accept that you're not the same person you were when (view spoiler) and you can't be again. Accept that your life is different now because of this monumental, irreversible change and that it's okay to feel guilty one day and indescribable happiness another. This is life now. This is how you live.”
“Regardless of how you behave, a lot of things are going to be out of your control because this world was made to test you. Protect your peace in whatever and every way that you can.”
“I can't comprehend living to work, but then I'm afraid of working just to live.”
“A white person can date a Black person and still be racist.”
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