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In my own work, I’ve found that the second I’m certain of something, the Universe sends a contradictory message to show me how little I actually know. For example, in the beginning of my career I believed that spirits who died recently
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“I'm lucky to have so much past, so many memories. It's a gift to age.”
― One Golden Summer
― One Golden Summer
“There have been so many times when I was scared to speak up because I was afraid somebody would think I was crazy. But I’ve learned that lesson now, the hard way. You have to speak the thing that you’re feeling, even if it scares you. You have to tell your story. You have to raise your voice.”
― The Woman in Me
― The Woman in Me
“You may not be able to listen to the songs of past relationships in the first few years after the end, but soon the albums will find their way back to you. All those memories of Saturdays by the seas and Sunday-night spaghetti on the sofa will slowly unfurl from around the chords and lift, floating up out of the songs until they disappear. There will always be a faint recognition in somewhere deep in the tissue of your guts that tells you that for a week this song, that man, was at the centre of your universe, but at some point it wont make your heart burn.”
― Everything I Know About Love
― Everything I Know About Love
“In a world where you can choose anger or empathy, always choose empathy,”
― Just for the Summer
― Just for the Summer
“ADHD is crazy, actually. My brain, how fast it moves at any given moment—that the hyperactivity, it’s not me bouncing off walls, it’s a thousand thoughts each minute bouncing off the walls in my head. And there are parts of it that are wonderful, I notice things other people don’t, I’m detail-oriented, I pick up patterns well, I think I’m quite clever, truthfully. I like how I think. I wasn’t sad when they diagnosed me with it, it made a lot of things about me make sense, and about us and how I am and how I can be and why—it answered a lot. It can be bad though. It can be a waterboarding of thoughts. Just—cloth over my brain’s face, and all the thoughts in the world being poured over my mouth and nose and you can’t breathe because if you do you’ll choke on them—”
― Magnolia Parks: Into the Dark
― Magnolia Parks: Into the Dark
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