Adrienne

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“Each time I told my story, I lost a bit, the smallest drop of pain. It was that day that I knew I wanted to tell the story of my family. Because horror on Earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun; it cannot be contained.”
― Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

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“We have both lost ourselves and created something else, something that exists only as an interlacing of the two of us. ”
― Robert James Waller

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“The backside of a mountain is a fight against human nature. You have to care as much about yourself on the way down as you did on the way up.”
― Mitch Albom

tags: uphill-climbs

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“Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.”
― Earl Nightingale

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“I stared at her black hair. It was shiny like the promises in magazines. ”
― Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

tags: hair, magazine, promises

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