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Of course, Eilidh wasn’t actually dead. She was a respected employee at her father’s company, clocking in her nine-to-five like everyone else, which was incalculably worse. If only she’d died! The only thing more virtuous than an ingenue
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“I don’t want to take anything to the grave. I want to die used up and emptied out. I don’t want to carry around anything that I don’t have to. I want to travel light.”
― Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed
― Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed
“Everone has a pain thermometer that goes from zero to ten. No one will make a change until they reach ten. Nine won't do it. At nine you are still afraid. Only ten will move you, and when you're there, you'll know. No one can make that decision for you.”
― Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World
― Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World
“There is plenty of work for love to do.”
― Tea Time for the Traditionally Built
― Tea Time for the Traditionally Built
“Being honest doesn't mean you say whatever you want, wherever you want. It means that what you choose to say is true.”
― Allegiant
― Allegiant
“Everyone who terrifies you is sixty-five percent water. And everyone you love is made of stardust, and I know sometimes you cannot even breathe deeply, and the night sky is no home, and you have cried yourself to sleep enough times that you are down to your last two percent; but nothing is infinite, not even loss. You are made of the sea and the stars, and one day you are going to find yourself again.”
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