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“There’ll always be someone who disapproves of the choices you make. But as long as you understand the reasons for them, as long as you’re happy with them and no one’s unduly hurt by them, you need to be strong enough – brave enough – to make your own decisions.”
― If Only I Could Tell You
― If Only I Could Tell You
“I have to admit I was annoyed. Not physically annoyed, but inside annoyed. That helpless feeling you have when you know you should not be angry because you have to consider how other people are feeling or accept them for what they are, and that it is not your place to say anything. But annoyed because you have not been considered in the whole picture, you are there and that is that. Apologies begin to mean nothing at that point and frustration takes over.”
― Down Among the Dead Men: A Year in the Life of a Mortuary Technician
― Down Among the Dead Men: A Year in the Life of a Mortuary Technician
“Let’s face it, a lot of times love doesn’t work out. Yet even when it fails, it connects you to others and, in the end, that is all you have, the connections.”
― Where the Crawdads Sing
― Where the Crawdads Sing
“Funny how when the words run out, in lust or in shock or in grief, we call to a God we don’t believe in any more.”
― The Other Wife
― The Other Wife
“Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation. You cannot control what happens to you in life, but you can always control what you will feel and do about what happens to you.”
― Man's Search for Meaning
― Man's Search for Meaning
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