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She knew she would remember that moment for the rest of her life, that moment when someone who barely knew her fulfilled every childhood wish she’d ever had to feel she mattered.
He had provided for her, the only way the dead can: through what they leave behind.
it’s our tears that make us human,
But life is lived at the moment you are living it, she thought. No one but God in heaven has the benefit of seeing beyond today.
Safe is not the same thing as happy.
Fear is worse than pain, I think. Pain is centralized, identifiable, and wanes as you wait. Fear is a heaviness you can’t wriggle out from under. You must simply find the will to stand with it and start walking. Fear does not start to fade until you take the step that you think you can’t.
Everyone has good days and bad days, Dr. Bristol told me. I came to learn, though, that there are days that are neither good nor bad. There is a kind of day that is something else entirely. On those days, you are restless for something. And that fidgety feeling doesn’t make your good days bad or your bad days good. It just makes you hungry.
sometimes wondering is better than knowing.
there are no secrets to a charmed life. There is just the simple truth that you must forgive yourself for only being able to make your own choices, and no one else’s.”
Sages of the past would say we are—all of us—just imperfect people on a flawed planet who are trying to hold on to what is good and lovely and right.
