Happy Place
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My best friends taught me a new kind of quiet, the peaceful stillness of knowing one another so well you don’t need to fill the space.
“Like time, color, temperature, and loneliness, love is one of those things that only humans experience. These things can rule over or control us, but they also allow us to live more fully.”
― If Cats Disappeared from the World
― If Cats Disappeared from the World
“But intimacy is about truth. When you realize you can tell someone your truth, when you can show yourself to them, when you stand in front of them bare and their response is “You’re safe with me”—that’s intimacy.”
― The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
― The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“but the idea of not being someone’s first choice. I get that.”
― Mile High
― Mile High
“And if I disappeared from the world? Well, I suppose nothing would change at all. Things would probably just go on, day after day … same as usual.”
― If Cats Disappeared from the World
― If Cats Disappeared from the World
“At the beginning of the decade, the people I was close to seemed like friends for life, people I could never imagine not seeing every day. But life happens. Love happens. Loss happens. Change and growth happen at different paces for different people, and sometimes the paces just don’t line up.”
― I'm Glad My Mom Died
― I'm Glad My Mom Died
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