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but there’s something to be said for a person who shows up when they’re needed, how they’re needed.
I might want to be a better man, but I’ll never be a saint.”
It’s hard to unteach yourself the lessons life’s taught you. You have to work at it.”
Bad things happen to everyone, honey, and even if it hurts so much you can’t breathe, you can come out the other side and find unicorns shitting rainbows. It’s okay to still hurt. And it’s okay to enjoy the view.”
Maybe we get more than we deserve sometimes, to make up for all the times we got less.
And I feel lucky, so damn lucky, that I just know the other shoe is going to drop. Or maybe a couple of concrete blocks, right on my chest. But I’m going to live like it won’t, because I’m sick of living in fear.
“Women are complicated,” Reese offers as he pets Bertie. My grandmother laughs. “Oh, my dear boy. Men are complicated. You’re told never to express emotions, so when they hit you it’s like an atomic bomb going off and everyone has to flee for cover. Our society has done you a disservice, if you ask me, with all that stiff upper lip nonsense.”

