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“No one gets to choose their family. And most of the time, your true family isn’t the people you’re related to by blood. Family sometimes just sort of … happens.”
Daryl Banner, Getting Lucky
“want you in my life,” I told him. “I don’t care if it isn’t love. I don’t care if what’s going on here is just two puppies who needed a friend. Lost souls crossing paths for this one spectacular moment in our lives that we’ll never forget. I don’t care if it isn’t love.”
Daryl Banner, Getting Lucky
“Sometimes we don’t get the closure we want. I think closure has to come from within us somehow. I’m not saying it’s easy. I’m just saying that sometimes … closure is a choice.” “A choice.” “We have to choose to let them go—and truly let them go. We have to choose to accept the way things are, as if that is how they are meant to be, and nothing we do can change it. The only thing we can change is ourselves and what we do with this Rubik’s Cube of a situation. Just leave it a mess of colors and put it on the shelf.”
Daryl Banner, Getting Lucky
“You are not like everyone else, James McKinney. You are not a man who people settle for,” he stated. “You’re a man worth fighting for.”
Daryl Banner, Getting Lucky
“You think that sort of sacrifice is a virtue afforded to everyone? You think your level of compassion and honor and humility is something everyone just has in their back pocket?”
Daryl Banner, Getting Lucky
“Put all of that darkness somewhere,” he advised me. “You’ve learned from it. You are still learning from it. The trick isn’t to purge yourself of it, or to lament over how your pain is turning you dark; it’s to learn to live a little in that darkness and make it not such an enemy.”
Daryl Banner, Getting Lucky
“My life might be better with a guy who could … lighten things up.”
Daryl Banner, Getting Lucky