The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The second-best time is today.
“The problem with so many people you encounter in life is that they’re being the version of themselves they think they should be rather than the person they actually are.”
― The Love of My Afterlife
― The Love of My Afterlife
“I was someone who took a long time to figure things out. But maybe it didn’t matter. I was enjoying myself.”
― Days at the Morisaki Bookshop
― Days at the Morisaki Bookshop
“them drag you to places you don’t want to go. Let them tell you things you don’t want to hear. Let them break you and put you back together. Like my beloved Stephen Sondheim wrote—Somebody hold me too close, somebody hurt me too deep. That’s what being alive is.”
― The Love of My Afterlife
― The Love of My Afterlife
“maybe it takes a long time to figure out what you’re truly searching for. Maybe you spend your whole life just to figure out a small part of it.”
― Days at the Morisaki Bookshop
― Days at the Morisaki Bookshop
“It’s hard to hold on to people the older we get. Life looks different for everyone, and you have to keep choosing one another. You have to make a conscious effort to say, over and over again, “You.” Not everyone makes that choice. Not everyone can.”
― Expiration Dates
― Expiration Dates
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