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What is meant to be is bound to happen, whether or not you approve.
Other people’s judgments were meaningless unless you allowed them to mean something.
This is what happens when you repudiate who you are. Once you do that, life works against you, and your fate is no longer your own.”
she would be held hostage by her responsibilities.
They may be nothing like you, he had written, they may surprise you, they may even repel you when their behavior is out of control, when they climb out their windows and drink underage and break every rule, but you will love them in a way you had not thought possible before, no matter who they turn out to be.
What you send out will come back to you,
everyone knew a dog was an antidote to alienation.
“Unable are the Loved to die, for Love is Immortality,” Jet said, quoting Emily Dickinson.
know exactly who you are,” William responded. “Just as I always knew who my father was. And I loved him, not despite it, but because of it, the way that I love you because of who you are.”
“I just do the best I can to face what life brings. That’s the secret, you know. That’s the way you change your fate.”
In this short Life That only lasts an hour How much—how little—is Within our power.
Life is a mystery, and it should be so, for the sorrow that accompanies being human and the choices one will have to make are a burden, too heavy for most to know before their time comes.
The first clear thought he had was a memory of an interview he had read with Jim Morrison, a singer and poet he admired for his rebellion. Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
that the girl at the lake had been perfectly right. It helped to write things down. It ordered your thoughts and if you were lucky revealed feelings you didn’t know you
“Well, we can’t really know our parents, can we?” Agnes said, reading her thoughts. “Even for those with the sight, parents are unfathomable creatures.”
They knew that a witch must never deny who she is, and that no matter what happens it’s always best to be true to oneself.
Unable are the Loved to die, for Love is Immortality,
She thought children were better behaved if they had a little fear and respect. But rules were never the point. It was finding out who you were.
Know that the only remedy for love is to love more.
