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“Progress takes time, Luca. Don’t feel down. You might not be where you want to be, but you’re also not where you were yesterday. Each day is a baby step. You just keep looking forward and taking them, and I promise one day you’re going to look back and be surprised how far those tiny little steps have taken you.”
Money and things don’t buy happiness—a beautiful heart is far more valuable than anything that can be bought.”
Money impresses the lazy girls. Smart girls are rich when they have something they can’t buy.”
The government already knows too much about us. Our forefathers fought for freedom, and the young people today give it all back.”
“More polite to talk behind a closed door than with my hard-on trying to escape from my pants, don’t you think, sweetheart?”
He'd call them trousers
could see myself raking the leaves out front in the fall, shoveling the snow in the winter, and taking long walks in the spring with Luca by my side.
He would say Autumn not fall
What comes easy won’t last long, and what lasts long won’t come easy.”
When she was done, I led us around to the back of the vehicle next to the trunk and lifted her up onto it so that we were eye to eye.
He would call it the boot not American trunk
“It’s seriously like I just don’t care about anything anymore, like I don’t care if I live or die.”
Not suicidal. I could never take my own life. I’d be too scared. It’s just a feeling of overall numbness.”
“Our fears are temporary—they come and go throughout life. But regret is permanent—we carry it with us forever.
