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If all we need is love, why do we always want more?
Marriage is made of a million beautiful and ugly moments stitched together into a shared tapestry of memories, all of which are viewed and remembered slightly differently, like two people staring at the same painting from opposite ends of a room.
I prefer dogs to humans. Dogs are loyal.
The only thing I don’t like about being alone is the amount of time it forces me to spend with myself.
Some people think hiding their grief will make it go away, but in my experience it only makes it hurt more. Grief is only ever yours; it’s not something you can share,
The disappeared are not the same as the departed.
Grief is a patient thief and steals far more than people who have never known it realize.
“Success is often the result of a series of failures. Try to remember that. You never learn anything from success, but failure can teach you everything about a person.
“People rarely know what they have until they lose it. They spend their lives searching for a better one, wanting more, needing more, blind to the fact that they already had it all. I think sometimes it’s only when something gets taken from a person that they appreciate what they had.
I keep my thoughts to myself because silence cannot be misquoted.
You can only rearrange the furniture of your life a number of times before things look the same as they did.
creativity is a gift which can’t be given back.
It felt like we had lost the version of us that knew how to be happy. We’re still together but I have never felt so alone.
Wives think their husbands will change but they don’t. Husbands think their wives won’t change but they do.
One of the many things I love about my dog is that he always agrees with me.
“This is a place for people who have spent their lives living in the margins, never feeling like they really belonged anywhere. They come here to find that sense of community they’ve been craving, a surrogate family made up from people who were once strangers, a place they can finally call home. Then they never leave.”
Life is beautiful and life is ugly and we have to learn to live with both sides of that same coin and see the light in the darkness. The world is Beautiful Ugly, relationships are Beautiful Ugly, love is Beautiful Ugly. Understanding that makes life easier to live with.”
Is being with someone who used to love you better than being alone?
I discovered that I loved the thing that used to scare me. Fear can make something beautiful appear ugly.”
Amberly is home to women who were wronged by the world. A place of hope when all hope is lost. Everyone who lives here will do anything to protect
The first word in the first fourteen chapters of the novel spells it out.
If you are reading this i am trapped on the island please help me…
