The Magic of Found Objects

by Maddie Dawson

“Also, can I borrow my ring back? My bread is going to get stale without it.”

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.

back. It’s not perfect. But nothing is perfect. 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.

“—and then, pow, he gets hit. And now he’s stunned. He thought things were going so well.”

“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.”

She didn’t know, for instance, how wet and cold it really was, and so when she came outside this morning, the first thing she did was to throw herself down in the middle of it and roll around. “And—well, I learned my lesson real fast!” she says. “That shit is frozen water!”

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.