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you might get a warm feeling, like being wrapped in a burrito hug.
Maybe, I thought, what was scary about knowing when you were going to die was knowing the exact moment you would stop mattering.
Letters that remind you love is specially picked words and inky promises
The world hadn’t ended yet but already the not-being-ourselves was beginning.
I could smell the sadness throughout the house, but Mom’s felt close enough to touch.
It was weird how knowing that you’d have to say goodbye eventually could make you miss a place or thing or person, even before they were gone.
loving the things she loved out loud.
The fact that the sun had risen every day I’d been alive didn’t mean that it would rise tomorrow.
The end meant new beginnings, but it also meant the ending of things I loved so, so much. And it made me want to curl up in a ball and cry.
my job and your job isn’t to see life coming. It’s to be the best you can be, to love people, to live even if it scares you. That’s the thing I want most for you—not that you stop being afraid, but that you keep living, even when you’re afraid.”
“You don’t have to be strong, baby. We’ll do it weak. We’ll limp and hurt and take everything one day at a time.

