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“We can either breathe through the pain or we can let it shape us.”
― The Last Letter
― The Last Letter
“Don’t let go,” she whispered. Her hands were still between us, but she wasn’t pushing me away, they were simply resting on my pecs. If anything, she leaned in. “I’d forgotten what this felt like.”
“Being hugged?” My voice was sandpaper-rough.
“Being held together.”
― The Last Letter
“Being hugged?” My voice was sandpaper-rough.
“Being held together.”
― The Last Letter
“But there isn't a single word in the universe that you can think of that would describe the way you feel right now.”
― How to Make Friends with the Dark
― How to Make Friends with the Dark
“The fire you have within you is impossible to kill. The first breath you take when you’re free of all this, it will come roaring back. That’s what is so impossibly beautiful about you.”
― Full Measures
― Full Measures
“Sometimes bad things happen. And there’s no blame to be placed. You can’t reason with the universe, no matter how sound your logic is … We are imperfect people made that way by an imperfect world, and we don’t always get a say in what shapes us.”
― The Last Letter
― The Last Letter
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