Things You Save in a Fire

by Katherine Center

It takes a lot of growing up, and a lot of disappointment, to accept that they’re just normal, bumbling, mistaken humans, like everybody else.

We tend to forget our parents are humans too

“Choosing to love—despite all the ways that people let you down, and disappear, and break your heart. Knowing everything we know about how hard life is and choosing to love anyway … That’s not weakness. That’s courage.”

Love is whatever you make it risks and heartbreak included

There’s so much death in that world, but laughter is life.

Laughter is medicine