Here One Moment

by Liane Moriarty

The idea of determinism, he said, is that everything that happens, and every decision or action you make, is “causally inevitable.” Why? Because everything is caused by something else: a preceding action, event, or situation.

If free will doesn’t exist, if all your decisions and actions are inevitable, are you still required to apologize for them?

parent’s love is surely strong enough to occasionally crash through the barrier dividing heaven and earth.

Chaos theory is the idea that a tiny change now can result in a large change later.

Everyone loves a particular version of you and when that person is gone that version goes with them.

You never know what your last words are going to be, so try to choose them all wisely.

But that’s the thing about life: both your wildest dreams and your worst nightmares can come true.

It is only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on Earth and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up that we begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it were the only one we had. —Elisabeth Kübler-Ross