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we had our mother’s eyes and our daddy’s curled-up fists, my grandmother said—both
Hendrix and I are from the mud and the music;
Who knew newborns know how to make a fist? This one probably learned it from Sarah.
The important thing was to love yourself. And to laugh at anything that might take you away from all that love.
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.
But, my darling, I would urge you to remember that we’ve all done the best we could here.
I don’t think you have to set fire to what’s behind you in order to go.
People were incompetent and clueless, but I was, too—and we were all just doing our best.
“Live your life,” she said. “And do it for both of us.”
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.
