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The things you don’t know when you’re young could break you into a million pieces if you let them.
need to learn to be good at it. Good food is important for your body, and serving it beautifully makes an ordinary day festive.
Don’t take things away from yourself before you even get to enjoy them.”
“Unfortunately, my sweet, terrible things can happen. Here or England or anywhere. But mostly they don’t. Mostly we’re okay.”
“Fair enough. I think you can be both an introvert and an extrovert at the same time. Be a loner and also like people. You can be more than one thing.”
But just because you don’t have the worst problem in the world doesn’t mean it isn’t a real problem to you.
“Good. It would be different if you were already around when I was born, but it would be strange to get used to calling somebody new Grandpa at this stage.”
“I don’t think she’s fine. I think she’s really sad in her heart.”
It’s so hard to love people, knowing they might die, knowing they might not always be there for a million reasons. I have always worried about people being taken from me, long before they were.
A day written about is a day somehow saved from oblivion. Only those journals saved me, writing and writing and writing about my pain. In some deep way, I became the person I needed through that practice.
