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After I Do
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“Isn’t it nice,” he says, “once you’ve outgrown the ideas of what life should be and you just enjoy what it is?”
“This, she realizes, is the basis of all fear. That a light you are powerless to stop will turn on you and usher a bullet to its mark.”
― All the Light We Cannot See
― All the Light We Cannot See
“And what is happiness, Nathan? In my experience, it's only a moment's pause here and there on what is otherwise a long and difficult road. No one can be happy all the time.”
― Ordinary Grace
― Ordinary Grace
“The miracle is this: that you will rise in the morning and be able to see again the startling beauty of the day.”
― Ordinary Grace
― Ordinary Grace
“Every hour, she thinks, someone for whom the war was memory falls out of the world.”
― All the Light We Cannot See
― All the Light We Cannot See
“There should be a statute of limitation on grief. A rulebook that says it is all right to wake up crying, but only for a month. That after 42 days you will no longer turn with your heart racing, certain you have heard her call out your name. That there will be no fine imposed if you feel the need to clean out her desk; take down her artwork from the refrigerator; turn over a school portrait as you pass - if only because it cuts you fresh again to see it. That it's okay to measure the time she has been gone, the way we once measured her birthdays.”
― My Sister's Keeper
― My Sister's Keeper
Bethany’s 2025 Year in Books
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