Love was not something, I realized, that came to you from outside. I had always thought that love was supposed to come from other people, and somehow, I was failing to catch the crumbs of it, failing to eat them, and I went around belly
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“Part of being alive is figuring out the balance between what you want, what you need, and what you have with what you don’t want, don’t need, and don’t have.”
― Mary Jane
― Mary Jane
“Here’s an interesting moment in any friendship. That time when one person has revealed something essential about themselves and the other must decide if they can accept it.”
― Lone Women
― Lone Women
“Nothing was free in this world, not a breath, not a life, not a journey.”
― Magic Lessons
― Magic Lessons
“the New Normal, which is what I call what happens when your universe is shaken so badly you can never regain the same axis as before. But you try anyway”
― Firekeeper's Daughter
― Firekeeper's Daughter
“What difference did it make if I had my Privacy and my Self-reliance and my Freedom if I felt like this? I was in a state of yearning, and I had been for years. I was not happy—had almost never been happy.”
― Mockingbird
― Mockingbird
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