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Thus the little mermaid learned her world’s greatest paradox: that their currency was beauty, and their coin was body parts.Esther Dalseno
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It seemed only right that beauty was the key to the industry, and the sacrificing of beauty to buy possessions seemed only fair to her evolving mind.Esther Dalseno
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Music, it seemed, could appear in many voices, and had all of the emotions and array of vocabulary as a human..Esther Dalseno
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You need to learn how to walk the world, he told me. There's a lot out there.Unknown
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Sure, I liked girls but I was always too terrified to speak to them unless we were arguing or I was calling them stupidos, which was one of my favorite words that year.Unknown
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I brought you here to tell you this: sometimes what we are searching for does not exist. We may sacrifice for it, even bleed for it, but it was never meant to be ours.Esther Dalseno
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Tell her that you love her hair, that you love her skin, her lips, because, in truth, you love them more than you love your own.Unknown
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Don't panic. Say, Hey, no problem. Run a hand through your hair like the whiteboys do even though the only thing that runs easily through your hair is Africa.Unknown