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They’ve taken too much already—don’t give them more by blaming yourself. Be angry, not guilty.”
It won’t be bad, he said, and even then, in that heart-fluttering moment, she thought of how far bad was from good, and how much existed in between.
But the need to be right—to insist you are right—has caused more problems in the world than actually being wrong. We don’t need to agree on a beginning to admit we’re in the same middle, do we? We started for different reasons.
After seeing a brick as purple, August said when she showed him the shade, people will still say red. Bricks are red. Life is easier if you deny the nuances.
“All I know is I have been at my worst when my best was needed.”
“The things that undo us. They’re never what we think they’ll be, are they?”
But if you relinquish responsibility, in the name of your belief, then I say it’s a wrong packaged as a right.”
“All I know is that continuing on with a mistake doesn’t make it right. It only makes it bigger.”
Everything is informed by what came before.
A marvelous ability, isn’t it? To escape into one’s mind.
how much depends on not just who tells the story, but on when the story starts, because life is layered upon life, and nothing is simple. Fluctuations and faults and lies that are a kindness. Green that is not grass and blue that is not sky. Ends that in fact could be beginnings.
