“If you find yourself debating whether or not you should go exercise, it means you have the time and the means, your're simply talking yourself out of doing something difficults”
― The Terrible and Wonderful Reasons Why I Run Long Distances (Volume 5)
― The Terrible and Wonderful Reasons Why I Run Long Distances (Volume 5)
“There is no later. This is later.”
― The Road
― The Road
“We want to be loved,’ ” quotes Britt-Marie. “ ‘Failing that, admired; failing that, feared; failing that, hated and despised. At all costs we want to stir up some sort of feeling in others. The soul abhors a vacuum. At all costs it longs for contact.’ ”
― My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
― My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
“I want someone to remember I existed. I want someone to know I was here.”
― My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
― My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
“Don’t you want to be alive before you die?”
― All the Light We Cannot See
― All the Light We Cannot See
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