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You don't have a right to the cards you believe you should have been dealt. You have an obligation to play the hell out of the ones you're holding - Cheryl Strayed

It is impossible for you to go on as you were before, so you must go on as you never have.

Alone had always felt like an actual place to me, as if it weren't a state of being, but rather a room where I could retreat to be who I really was.

The particularity of our problems can be made bearable only through the recognition of our universal humanity. We suffer uniquely, but we survive the same way.

After destiny has delivered what it delivers, we are responsible for our own lives.

Inhabit the beauty the lives in your beastly body and strive to see the beauty in all the other beasts.

Acceptance is a small, quiet room.

I collect words and lock them away, stored like a hoard of gems. ...I have black pens and yellow notebooks. And every night I write stories and poems.

I've always loved reading and stuff. Books,poems. So maybe a writer. I always thought that would be the thing. To write books. Make up stories. Maybe you could write my story one day. Then we'll make a film out of it, for certain. Imagine that.

Richard: Louisa, is your life always like this? Louisa: Possibly. Although I'd like to think it's just a phase.

Great start.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a dining companion with food stains is in want of a napkin. Best thing Plain Austen has ever said!

Maybe trouble with time ran in their family.

The sea was the first thing he had found that was large enough to absorb his sorrow.

I don't believe that any question is too big; you simply have to tailor your answers.