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What Saves Us
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Maggie C. Gates11,171 ratings, 4.09 average rating, 1,069 reviews
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“Did you sit with her in the dark and help her open the curtains or did you walk away and wonder why she wasn’t turning on the lights?”
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― What Saves Us
“Watching pitiful droplets fall into the bottles as my body was literally vacuumed dry sent me into a nervous tailspin each time.”
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― What Saves Us
“I swear—it’s like they make it impossible to finish filling it up on an even number because they know it’ll drive the person crazy and they’ll keep going to the next dollar. It’s gotta be some kind of industry scam to sell more gas.”
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― What Saves Us
“No matter how dark the night is, morning always comes. The valley can be as deep as it wants, but hope pays no mind. It anticipates the climb ahead, and holds fast to the knowledge that the view from the peak is like no other. When everything else crumbles, hope stays. Hope is a caterpillar, bravely entering its cocoon and trusting that tomorrow will be better. It comes vibrantly, like the wings of a butterfly, painting the bleak present with promises of beauty. That’s the nature of hope.”
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― What Saves Us
“I wanted the first words your daughter got to hear on this side of heaven to be ‘I love you.”
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― What Saves Us
“You know what makes a painting valuable?” he asked. I shook my head. “Texture.”
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― What Saves Us
“Math is constant. It follows the rules. It’s consistent in a world that rarely is. I guess… I guess it makes sense to me when nothing else does.”
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― What Saves Us
“Before she gave birth, I wanted her. After I watched her bring life into the world, there was no way I wasn’t going to have her. However long that took. I was trained to be a patient man”
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― What Saves Us
“Hell no. I should have brought popcorn. This is his worst nightmare.” She laughed. “Grannies gone wild.”
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― What Saves Us
“I think I’m more surprised that you can sew!”
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― What Saves Us
“Beth’s body was written in cursive. Elegant, flowing lines that curved and dipped as they went from commonality to art. She was abstract poetry; prose that I’d never forget. Structured, yet fluid. The meandering form that created life was a lyric I wanted to be stuck in my head all day.”
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― What Saves Us
“And it’s worth pursuing. You’re worth pursuing”
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― What Saves Us
“Maybe I didn’t mind him being a devious motherfucker if I was the mother he was fucking.”
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― What Saves Us
“you’re incredible. I know how much you hate this, and how much it hurts you, but the fact that you’re choosing to do it because it’s what your child needs in this moment makes you a good mom. And in the morning when we go to the store and get whatever shit you need to feed her with a bottle? That makes you a good mom, because you’re taking care of your child. I admire the fuck out of you, Dimples.”
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― What Saves Us
“What’s your game plan? I’m gonna stay, and I’m gonna help. Just tell me what you want to happen.”
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― What Saves Us
“Let me try that again. I’m sorry I overstepped. Can you tell me what upset you so I don’t do it again?”
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― What Saves Us
“Hey, Mama.”
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― What Saves Us
“Living is a death sentence. We’re all terminal. It’s how you spend the time you have that makes all of it worth it.”
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― What Saves Us
“And eventually you can look back and be proud of yourself for making it through because it’s what’s on the other side of the suck that matters.”
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― What Saves Us
“Once you admit how shitty everything is and how much you hate it, you start to embrace it. You don’t have the expectation of overcoming anymore.”
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― What Saves Us
“Admitting that something sucks doesn’t mean that it’s not going to be worth it or that you’re not going to want it in the long run.”
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― What Saves Us
“She nodded quickly and reached for my hand. “I’m sorry I kept you.” “You can keep me anytime, Dimples.”
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― What Saves Us
“We don’t always get to choose our path, but we choose how we walk it.”
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― What Saves Us
