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Like my favorite resident says every time she sees me: the secret to having it all is knowing that you already do.
Families are like fingerprints; no two are the same, and they tend to leave their mark.
Pity
fades with age, hate is lost and found, but guilt can last a lifetime.
Everyone’s life has uncharted waters—the places and people you didn’t quite manage to find—but when you feel as though you never will, it’s a special kind of sorrow. The unexplored oceans of our hearts and minds are normally the result of a lack of time and trust in the dreams we dreamed as children. But adults forget how to believe that their dreams might still come true.
Some people drink to drown their sorrows; others drink so they can swim in them.
Doesn’t everyone wonder who they might have been if they weren’t who they were?
‘The future is a promise we can still choose whether to keep. The past is a promise we’ve already broken.’
Books saved me, and I ran away inside the stories I read as a child. They were the only place where I could run, and swim, and dance without fear of falling and not being able to get back up. Books were full of friends and adventures, whereas my real childhood was cold, and dark, and horribly lonely.
