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“Because there’s no such thing as life without heartbreak,”
dark things must be loved secretly, in the space between the soul and the shadows.
These days, though, I feel I am an exploding star, pieces of me vaulting through the air without aim.
Madwomen are said to write well.
Old haunts conjure up familiar ghosts,
I want happiness for you, but so much more. I want you to not know the pain that awaits you. I want you to roar back at the things that scare you. I want for you a life that is not just happy, but meaningful.
suspect that the people we are drawn to are the ones we need most, even if we are never able to fully comprehend why.
As much as we crave a concise, linear narrative, life happens as it will, often in a haphazard fashion that feels anything but finished. We must cobble together our most important moments and call them our story.
To have been placed on this planet with you and your mother at the same time in a universe billions of years old and more vast than we will ever begin to comprehend—this is the gift of my life.
