“You can miss the future with people who are still alive too.”
― Instructions for Dancing
― Instructions for Dancing
“I’m not scared I won’t survive the pain. I’m scared the pain will never end and I’ll have to live with it forever. The problem with broken hearts isn’t that they kill you. It’s that they don’t.”
― Instructions for Dancing
― Instructions for Dancing
“It doesn’t matter that love ends. It just matters that there’s love.”
― Instructions for Dancing
― Instructions for Dancing
“Here's what I think. If you get very, very lucky in this life, then you get to love another person so hard and so completely that when you lose them, it rips you apart. I think the pain is the proof of a life well lived and loved.”
― Instructions for Dancing
― Instructions for Dancing
“You can’t change what has already happened. What you did or decided. So you have two choices. Wallow in it, stay in the chokehold of guilt and shame that holds you back from the next phase of your life”—she taps the pad with the pen—“or decide you’ve punished yourself long enough for things you can never change and set a date when you’ll forgive yourself and move forward.”
― Before I Let Go
― Before I Let Go
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