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To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
“I slipped on the forcefully carefree posture of the other boys around me. The existential shrug of young men afraid to admit that they’ve been touched by art, and that they want to be touched in that way again.”
― How We Fight For Our Lives
― How We Fight For Our Lives
“The difference between a garden and a graveyard is only what you choose to put in the ground”
― Helium
― Helium
“Everyone has a lie we’re quietly waiting to believe.”
― How We Fight For Our Lives
― How We Fight For Our Lives
“I made myself a promise: Even if it meant becoming a stranger to my loved ones, even if it meant keeping secrets, I would have a life of my own.”
― How We Fight For Our Lives
― How We Fight For Our Lives
“liberosis
n. the desire to care less about things—to loosen your grip on your life, to stop glancing behind you every few steps, afraid that someone will snatch it from you before you reach the end zone—rather to hold your life loosely and playfully, like a volleyball, keeping it in the air, with only quick fleeting interventions, bouncing freely in the hands of trusted friends, always in play.”
― The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
n. the desire to care less about things—to loosen your grip on your life, to stop glancing behind you every few steps, afraid that someone will snatch it from you before you reach the end zone—rather to hold your life loosely and playfully, like a volleyball, keeping it in the air, with only quick fleeting interventions, bouncing freely in the hands of trusted friends, always in play.”
― The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
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