“I’d worked so hard to keep myself from hurting that I’d lost countless opportunities to smile. Because it turned out, there was no good without bad. Neither could exist without the other, and every life held both. Every person in the world could experience purest joy, and the most desperate of griefs, but if our hearts and eyes were closed then we’d live beneath the surface of it all, never truly experiencing either. And though it may have seemed like we were saving ourselves from unimaginable pain, we were really keeping ourselves from unimaginable happiness too.”
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Caroline Peckham,
Forget-Me-Not Bombshell
