The Tenant
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And for the first time, I understand my predecessor. Because I wouldn’t mind if this glass broke and sent me plummeting to my death 350 feet below.
“I’ve always thought that the best way to truly know a person is to listen to them. Not just to what they say, but to what they don’t. All sorts of secrets are neatly tucked inside the silent gaps between words. The simple act of listening is a forgotten art in our loud world.”
― Daisy Darker
― Daisy Darker
“You’re going to be just fine. People told me I’d never be a published author, but here I am. I believe that you can be whoever you want to be too. Forget what other people say about you, and write your own story.”
― Daisy Darker
― Daisy Darker
“Is the self a fixed, understandable entity? Probably not. I feel more like a community than a singular self. I feel like I’m made up of many competing, conflicting parts that developed in response to the trauma and magic of living. As Whitman said, we each contain multitudes.”
― We Can Do Hard Things: Answers to Life's 20 Questions
― We Can Do Hard Things: Answers to Life's 20 Questions
“I no longer believed in the idea of soul mates, or love at first sight. But I was beginning to believe that a very few times in your life, if you were lucky, you might meet someone who was exactly right for you. Not because he was perfect, or because you were, but because your combined flaws were arranged in a way that allowed two separate beings to hinge together.”
― Blue-Eyed Devil
― Blue-Eyed Devil
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