I did not know then that this is what life is - just when you master the geometry of one world, it slips away, and suddenly again, you're swarmed by strange shapes and impossible angles.
Ta-Nehisi Coates (2008). “The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood”, p.220, Spiegel & Grau
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