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“You cannot worry about what came before or what happens next, what has been lost or what you might gain. There is only this moment.”
― King of Scars
― King of Scars
“What good's a black face if it means I'm just someone else's property? Why give me these arms and legs just to carry someone else's load, not my own?”
― Under a Painted Sky
― Under a Painted Sky
“Then if we make it to tomorrow, we'll be here to pick up the pieces, and help him carry his load. That's what we do when we love someone: we don't stop them from breaking, we help put them back together.”
― Reign Of The Wolf
― Reign Of The Wolf
“How do we make new
and restorative of soul
the old pain? How do we learn
to carry with grace and humor
all that has happened to us?”
― Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart
and restorative of soul
the old pain? How do we learn
to carry with grace and humor
all that has happened to us?”
― Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart
“Don't fall.
It seems we've
struggled
for so long.
We've trampled
on the backs
of apes to
clutch the
muddied
hems of
angels.”
―
It seems we've
struggled
for so long.
We've trampled
on the backs
of apes to
clutch the
muddied
hems of
angels.”
―
“There's nothing to do. You've been in the business long enough to understand grief. That's the awful thing: there is nothing to do but go on. You don't want to, you don't want to leave the loved one behind, but you do. Death's taught you that much at least.”
― A Prayer for the Dying
― A Prayer for the Dying
“O’ serpentine Ouroboros,
semper salvus!
Semper tutis!
The end shall never consume us.”
― Night Tide Musings
semper salvus!
Semper tutis!
The end shall never consume us.”
― Night Tide Musings
“You fight. You fight for what you want. You do not wallow or surrender. The lesson is not in lying down and allowing yourself to be stabbed, child. It's in pushing yourself up and battling back." "You fell down. So? Will you stay there, weeping over skinned knees? Or will you brush off your skirts, adjust your hair, and carry on? Do not relinquish your grasp on hope. It's one of the best weapons anyone possesses.”
― Capturing the Devil
― Capturing the Devil
“As I've always said to Talyn, tough times never last. But tough Andarions. I learned that from watching you as a boy. Your parents, grandparents, and Keris treated you like shit and yet you never once spoke against them. You'd just lift your chin and carry on. 'Barking dogs don't bother me,' you used to say. 'Sooner or later, they reach the end of their yard and hit a fence. I'll keep going past it, and won't hear them anymore.”
― Born of Betrayal
― Born of Betrayal
“Man," Fonny says, "we just have to move it from day to day. If you think too much about it, you really are fucked, can't move at all.”
― If Beale Street Could Talk
― If Beale Street Could Talk
“She counted on herself to withstand everything. And yet, who said she had to? What would happen if she broke down now and then?”
― The Portable Veblen
― The Portable Veblen
“When the world as as knew it ended, we stood up again in the ruin, and found a way to keep walking through tears.”
― Catching the Light
― Catching the Light
“You think because l'm kind that it means I'm naive, and maybe I am. It's strategic and necessary. This is how I fight.”
―
―
“It's just, families are strange things, aren't they? You have this couple: one man, one woman. A male and a female, if you will. They mate, and why? To leave children behind. And what are the children supposed to do? Turn around and do the whole thing over again? Well, what do you do when what you've got isn't worth carrying on? The things people do for family.”
― The Hole
― The Hole
“My dear, you think too hard," was all she said. "Come here." She stood up and wrapped me in her arms. We cried and sobbed and wept and bled tears. But when we were finished, all we could do was continue living.”
― Who Fears Death
― Who Fears Death
“And I start to wonder if I will every manage to find something worth living for, admit all of these billions of billions of stars that shine down on me at this very moment. And what if I don't manage that? Do not find something to live for? Will I have to settle with giving up my dreams? So, in light of this, where is my speck of hope that will motive me to carry on after this monumental and life changing trip? Lost somewhere between the stars? Or maybe buried deep down within me, motivating me to keep carry on and doing my best, at whatever life throws at me?”
― Peruvian Days
― Peruvian Days
“We never fully die even in what we think of as actual death. We change again and become echoes in others, and they carry us forward.”
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―
“What we bring, finally, into the new day, every day,
Is ourselves. And that’s all we need
To start. That’s everything we require to keep going.
Look back only for as long as you must,
Then go forward into the history you will make.”
― Not Go Away Is My Name
Is ourselves. And that’s all we need
To start. That’s everything we require to keep going.
Look back only for as long as you must,
Then go forward into the history you will make.”
― Not Go Away Is My Name
“Listen, no one signed up for this lullaby.
No bleeped sheep or rosebuds or twitching stars
will diminish the fear or save you from waking
into the same day you dreamed of leaving—”
―
No bleeped sheep or rosebuds or twitching stars
will diminish the fear or save you from waking
into the same day you dreamed of leaving—”
―
“Life is like that. You think you’re just slogging along and then something reminds you that just getting up in the morning and choosing to live is something miraculous. I try to hold that with me. I need to hold that with me.”
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―
“The thing that makes me break down in tears the most often is not grief, but human resilience. To watch someone dress their kids and get them to school, ship them off with backpacks and N95 masks knowing how hard the world is.
To watch someone keep going with some sort of unfathomable fortitude, no matter how rough the human waters, that is what astounds me.
And still we go on, the world seems to say.”
―
To watch someone keep going with some sort of unfathomable fortitude, no matter how rough the human waters, that is what astounds me.
And still we go on, the world seems to say.”
―
“If I listened close enough, the mountains seemed to be saying, “We are all doing our best with this life.”
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―
“My friends often state in the midst of otherwise
loving group chat missives that life is trash, though
we all keep trying to make one for some reason
or another”
― The Study of Human Life
loving group chat missives that life is trash, though
we all keep trying to make one for some reason
or another”
― The Study of Human Life
“Remember how you didn’t fall yesterday
even though you thought you would?
Life can be like that all the time if you
let it.”
―
even though you thought you would?
Life can be like that all the time if you
let it.”
―
“Everett Anderson says, "I knew
my daddy loved me through and through,
and whatever happens when people die,
love doesn't stop, and
neither will I.”
― Everett Anderson's Goodbye
my daddy loved me through and through,
and whatever happens when people die,
love doesn't stop, and
neither will I.”
― Everett Anderson's Goodbye
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