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When you’re an active alcoholic, you give up everything for one thing. But when you commit to sobriety, you give up one thing for everything.
“It is warm, soon to be cold, but that's in the future, maybe tomorrow, probably the next day and all the days after that. Today, now, I drink what I have, will eat what is left in the cupboard, while my mother finishes her quilt, piece by piece.
Believe me, there is just barely enough goodness in all of this.”
― The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
Believe me, there is just barely enough goodness in all of this.”
― The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
“Ya=hey," he called out to the movement of air, the unseen. A summer before, Uncle Moses listened to his nephew John-John talking a story. John-John was back from college and told Moses that 99 percent of the matter in the universe is invisible to the human eye. Ever since, Moses made sure to greet what he could not see.”
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“Be Still, be still, she would say between her teeth, but Arnold loved his body too much to remain still.”
― The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
― The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
“I realise that you were not born with a predetermined capacity for wonder, as I’d believed. I realise that you fed it up yourself from tiny pieces of the world. I realise it’s up to me to follow your example and nurture my own wonder, morsel by morsel by morsel.”
― Spill Simmer Falter Wither
― Spill Simmer Falter Wither
“It is lucky, she thinks, that we don’t feel all the love inside us every moment. We couldn’t breathe or walk or eat. It is lucky that it just flares up every now and again then resolves itself into a manageable dormancy.”
― The Hole We're In
― The Hole We're In
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