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She held her alcohol better than most, a skill that her father took full credit for.
The mind is a thousand times more fertile than any kind of soil.”
“Nothing we keep around us is only for décor, is it? We select and surround ourselves with objects that speak to or for us, whether we are aware of it or not.”
When running for your life, honesty was a luxury. Courage, even the false kind, was not.
It is an old woman’s vice to ramble and take advantage of people who are too polite to tell her to be quiet.”
Longing is a life sentence.
They smelled foul and were covered with mold and dirt, all their words and sentiments decayed. That is what happens when words are left unsaid. It does not matter how beautiful they are. In time, everything rots.
life is about finding joy in the space between where you came from and where you are going. I may never get to where I want to go, but I can look back on my life and say that I did not waste a second of it being bitter that I was not someplace else. Happiness does not exist in a place. It lives in every breath we take. You need to choose to take it in, over and over again.”
“It’s funny how the mind finds ways to fill itself up with worthless things as though it was afraid of being empty.”
Izumi held her stomach, thinking of everything she would have to let go of to hold a baby in her arms instead.
Despite what Keishin had learned in biology, purpose was more important for keeping someone alive than the blood in their veins.
His father had once told him that there was only one measure of how well a person spent his day. It depended on how much of the day you spent pining for the future or regretting your past.
