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Today the clouds seemed puffed into existence, exhalations from the mouth of a greater being.
Anyway, it wasn’t that she needed anyone to like her. It was just that she already liked herself so much and found herself so very interesting (and smart and creative and nice and funny and friendly and genuine) that she really couldn’t understand why it wasn’t easier for her to fit in.
No hellos, no good-byes, just Alice moving into a new moment.
Best to introduce yourself to patience now, so that it might find you when you call upon it later.”
Love had made her fearless, and wasn’t it strange? It was so much easier to fight for another than it was to fight for oneself.)
“People are so preoccupied with making sense despite it being the most uninteresting thing to manufacture.”
it was hard for her to believe Mother would miss her. But Alice underestimated the space she took up in the hearts and minds of those she met and she had no way of knowing how her absence would affect the ones she loved.
Why do you have to be the one to change? Change the way we see. Don’t change the way you are.”
it was far more likely that they’d just discovered one of life’s greatest tricks: Laughter was a silk that would soften even the roughest moments.
I fell one day I learned to fly
