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He is absolutely non-possessive, non-jealous—and I’m sorry, but I hate that.
You’re creating your reality, and the words you tell yourself, the story you believe about yourself, is the way things are going to turn out for you. You have to fill your heart with love for yourself, Phronsie. That is the first and most important thing you have to do. Everything you want will follow from that.”
grief is something you can get used to. You shrink it down, put it in your pocket, like a phone number scrawled on a piece of paper, and maybe after a while, you just leave it in your drawer and don’t carry it with you at all.
No one, no one, loves me the way I want to be loved. No one loves the whole me.
“Just listen, will you? I’m supposed to tell you that you’re about to make a big mistake. And to stop it.” She laughs. “So—there you have it—stop whatever it is.” “Well, that covers a lot of territory,” I say. “I shouldn’t drink my next sip of coffee maybe? Or is it my work I’m not supposed to do?” “You know what it is,” she says. “It’s probably not the coffee.”
It takes character to live with the imperfect facts of your life and to change the things you can change, and to be willing to live with the things you can’t do anything about.
“Just take your place in the world with as much grace and gratitude as you can muster and try to see the best in us.”
People were incompetent and clueless, but I was, too—and we were all just doing our best.
“Well,” he says in a light voice, “if you ever want a reader, I could be the one. I like novels about imperfect people who do stupid things like fall in love with the wrong people but keep their sense of humor. And then they have friends who help them see who they are.”
when you’re drawn to someone, they also feel the same way about you because it’s the spark in you talking to the spark in them.
“Everything always works out in the end. And if it didn’t work out yet, then it isn’t the end.”
