“The good and the bad, the magic and curses, all the blues and grays right alongside the reds and golds. I tell her the story about a love so powerful it remade the world for her. I welcome her to this great big beautiful life.”
― Great Big Beautiful Life
― Great Big Beautiful Life
“It occurs to me then that in my effort to be positive, optimistic, and understanding, I might've made myself into an unreliable narrator of sorts, someone who can't easily be trusted not to sugarcoat things.”
― Great Big Beautiful Life
― Great Big Beautiful Life
“With writing, you could always add more. More, more, more until you got to the heart of a thing, and after that, you could chip away the excess.”
― Great Big Beautiful Life
― Great Big Beautiful Life
“From before my first breath, there were two distinct Margaret Iveses. There was me, and then there was the other one, the one who belonged to the public. Who got written about. Who people loved at times and hated at others, and no matter where I stood with the public, I understood that it wasn’t really me.”
― Great Big Beautiful Life
― Great Big Beautiful Life
“That's the deal with people. They're always more than one thing, and a lot of times they're even a collection of contradictory traits.”
― Great Big Beautiful Life
― Great Big Beautiful Life
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