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Define loneliness? Yes. It’s what we can’t do for each other.
Tomorrow, I decide, will be better. Tomorrow, I will recover from today.
The first stage of grief, I realize, isn’t denial—it’s clinging.
True or False 1. You need more than any one person can reasonably give. ____
We are putting on an incredible performance of survival. Where is our prize?
About loving someone so much you’d spend another lifetime with them, knowing you could easily choose someone else, go down a different path, chase the euphoria of the unknown.
“A story typically has a beginning, middle, and end,” I explain. He raises the imaginary cigarette to his mouth and inhales deeply. “Oh, darling! Not when you’re still living it.”
Which is more important: the object or the light that illuminates the object? A: I know that I’ve spent my entire life convinced I wasn’t real unless I was loving someone with everything I had.
