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We were so different, my cousin and I. She was honest—real. Her emotions were mapped on her face while mine hid behind carefully practiced composure.
Such a good contrast for when Ione uses the Maiden card
“He wrote me a prescription for more diazepam and advised I take things “one day at a time,” as if there were another way for days to be experienced.”
― The Humans
― The Humans
“I never deserved your friendship.” “Friendship isn’t about deserving,” I told him. “It’s about knowing you’re never alone.”
― The Queen's Crown
― The Queen's Crown
“I’d rather be the villain who lives to the end than the hero who winds up dead”
― If You Could See the Sun
― If You Could See the Sun
“Descartes was wrong, you know, when he said, 'To live well, you must live unseen.' To live well, you must learn to see yourself first. Do you understand what I'm saying?”
― If You Could See the Sun
― If You Could See the Sun
“That message is simple: When you come to one of the many moments in life when you must give an account of yourself, provide a ledger of what you have been, and done, and meant to the world, do not, I pray, discount that you filled a dying man’s days with a sated joy, a joy unknown to me in all my prior years, a joy that does not hunger for more and more, but rests, satisfied. In this time, right now, that is an enormous thing.”
― When Breath Becomes Air
― When Breath Becomes Air
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