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“We've drifted apart. It's a sad reality for me in my late twenties. At the beginning of the decade, the people I was close to seemed like friends for life, people I could never imagine not seeing every day. But life happens. Love happens. Loss happens. Change and growth happen at different paces for different people, and sometimes the paces just don't line up. It's devastating if I think too much about it, so I usually don't.”
― I'm Glad My Mom Died
― I'm Glad My Mom Died
“This is a world constantly moving, constantly changing. Beneath it, all that stays the same, the eternal, the code of consciousness”
― A Short Walk Through a Wide World
― A Short Walk Through a Wide World
“I suppose one of the reasons we’re all able to continue to exist for our allotted span in this green and blue vale of tears is that there is always, however remote it might seem, the possibility of change”
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“Sunflowers are adaptable, for one. Seventy species. You plant them somewhere, and they'll figure out how to grow. They'll come up on the rich loam of rivers as easily as in arid, poor dirt. The worse the soil, the bigger they flower. They're scrappy as hell, but they always look like stars.”
― The Secret Life of Sunflowers
― The Secret Life of Sunflowers
“To be a human is complex, and often painful; to be an animal is comfortingly simple and good.”
― The God of the Woods
― The God of the Woods
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