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"Taking a break on this one now that Christmas is over" — Dec 31, 2025 07:25AM
"Taking a break on this one now that Christmas is over" — Dec 31, 2025 07:25AM
“Despair was a choice. Hatred was a choice. Anger was a choice. I still had choices, and that knowledge rocked me. I may not have had as many Lester had, but I still had some choices. I could choose to give up or to hang on. Hope was a choice. Faith was a choice. And more than anything else, love was a choice. Compassion was a choice.”
― The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
― The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
“You only get one life. It's actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.”
― Me Before You
― Me Before You
“You can’t control the bad things that happen to you. All you can do is decide how much of you you’re going to let them take.”
― The Happy Ever After Playlist
― The Happy Ever After Playlist
“Grace costs you nothing”
― Part of Your World
― Part of Your World
“You learn to live with it, with them. Because they do stay with you, even if they’re not living, breathing people any more.
It’s not the same crushing grief you felt at first, the kind that swamps you, and makes you want to cry in the wrong places, and get irrationally angry with all the idiots who are still alive when the person you love is dead.
It’s just something you learn to accommodate.
Like adapting around a hole. I don’t know. It’s like you become … a doughnut instead of a bun”
― After You
It’s not the same crushing grief you felt at first, the kind that swamps you, and makes you want to cry in the wrong places, and get irrationally angry with all the idiots who are still alive when the person you love is dead.
It’s just something you learn to accommodate.
Like adapting around a hole. I don’t know. It’s like you become … a doughnut instead of a bun”
― After You
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