“If that was true he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream. He must have looked up at an unfamiliar sky through frightening leaves and shivered as he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass. A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about...like that ashen, fantastic figure gliding toward him through the amorphous trees.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.”
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“You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.”
― My Sister's Keeper
― My Sister's Keeper
“God doesn’t need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves.”
― The Poisonwood Bible
― The Poisonwood Bible
“Because he’d overthought the situation, no matter what he chose, he wasn’t going to be happy.”
― Don't Overthink It: Make Easier Decisions, Stop Second-Guessing, and Bring More Joy to Your Life
― Don't Overthink It: Make Easier Decisions, Stop Second-Guessing, and Bring More Joy to Your Life
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