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get busy living, or get busy dying. I’m going with the first one.
The GB. The Great Beyond. Their joke. He smiled. He damn well hoped she was watching. It made him feel less alone.
When you’re living with a ticking clock, you can’t be a loser. You can’t think about what you won’t get to see, what you’ll never have. Ain’t no one got time for that.
Grief was a heavy, dark blanket, weighing him down, making the smallest things difficult.
The sadness shouldn’t cancel out what had been so bright and full and beautiful. Just because the cherry blossoms would fall didn’t mean you should mourn them on the tree.
“Maybe there’s more to getting new clothes than new clothes.” “You definitely sound like a therapist now.” Radley smiled. “Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. And sometimes it isn’t.”
Peopling was hard. It was worth it about half the time, but it took a lot out of him.
“God listens,” his mother said. “But He’s not a grocer, okay? Just because you pray for something you want doesn’t mean you’re going to get
This life here? This is just a tiny piece of our true lives.”
She sounds like an angel with a dirty sense of humor.”
And then, life changed with the kind of pulse that makes the world stop for a second, that lets you listen to the breath of stars and ocean. The day you recognize your life will never be the
Don’t let me be your life’s tragedy. Let me be one of the best things that ever happened. One of the many best things that ever happened to you. Let our time together be a beautiful, happy time in your life that came to an end, but led to more happiness, more love.
