No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.

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I am wounded. I am marked by old codes, which shielded me in one world and then chained me in the next. ― Ta-Nehisi Coates

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I was, you know, a mess. I totally wanted to kill myself every day.

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Sons want their fathers' attention until the precise moment when fathers want their sons'. ― Fredrik Backman

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Some men became fathers mainly to show that they are not gay. Some, only to hide the fact that they are. ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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If I have held a part of myself back from my children, I have obviously spent some time calculating the expense of being a father. And the fact is, a real father doesn't do that kind of math. ― Craig D. Lounsbrough

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I think of your grandmother calling me and noting how you were growing tall and would one day try to “test me.” And I said to her that I would regard that day, should it come, as the total failure of fatherhood because if all I had over you were my hands, then I really had nothing at all. ― Ta-Nehisi Coates

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I wanted to see what type of trees is growing in Marcy Projects, what type of water Jay Z was drinking. – DJ Khaled

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And his expression, now. I realized right then -- how disappointed you could be when you were all in with someone. When you cared so deeply. How your heart could break, so precisely and quickly. ― Maurene Goo

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I have wanted only one thing to make me happy. That thing is everything. ― Sebastian Horsley

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