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Since when did the reasons we worked hard matter? They didn’t put your motivations in your obituary, only your accomplishments.
The house was eerily silent, a heartbeat forever missing.
Every year I didn’t go back was another hammer strike on the wedge of our growing divide.
Our words collided with one another as we scrambled to fill the silence.
“one day you’ll realize you worked your whole life to get to a point where you can start living, and the one regret you’ll have is you could have been living all along.”
She was so stunning a poet could not have painted her with words, the kind of beautiful that made me quiver.
Wherever I turned, her memory waited.
One small step for man, one giant leap for Carver Livingston. Neil Armstrong spoke in my head as I crossed the threshold of Twenty-Seven Whitney Road.
“She would do whatever it took to get us to read. Even if that meant straying a long way from the curriculum.”
When you can put yourself in a state of awe, you see things for what they truly are. We’re lifted out of the fragile cage in which our tiny minds are often trapped.”
Elliot’s happiness apparently existed without any attachments, as if he didn’t need to do a thing and would still have a smile plastered on his face.
Schadenfreude.”
the experience of finding joy in other people’s pain. You’re not alone if there’s a word for it.”
it’s best if I don’t insert too many opinions when it comes to matters of the heart.”
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
“It’ll be okay, whatever comes. I wish someone had told me that. But I guess sometimes we learn the hard way. Know that there will be broken hearts and sad things that happen and times when you think you’re not worthy of the air you’re breathing. But hold on to the good stuff and know it’ll be okay. Your place is out there in the world, and you’ll eventually find it.”
love is worth the risk, because a life without love isn’t a life at all.
