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I do my best, thinking of them one by one, releasing them like birds from the protective cages inside me, locking the doors against their return.
“Because that’s what life is—joy peppered by loss. It’s why you get a dog. And then you get another dog.”
― Summer Romance
― Summer Romance
“It's a lot easier to work through other people's problems. I think I must be very attached to my own.”
― Summer Romance
― Summer Romance
“When I’m quiet I can hear my heart yearning for impossible things. I want a perfectly pared-down home, and I want to hang on to every scrap of the past. I want a break from my kids without missing a single minute of their lives. I long for a partnership, and I long for freedom. I long to be enmeshed with someone without losing myself. I want all of it. Maybe”
― Summer Romance
― Summer Romance
“And now I can never unknow the truest true thing - the intensity of the love you feel will match the intensity of its loss. This is practically physics.”
― Summer Romance
― Summer Romance
“You get a dog and you know two things - you're going to fall in love with it and it's going to die one day. You knowingly walk headfirst into a heartbreak. That's the basic madness of dog ownership.”
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― Summer Romance
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