Stacey

“They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other.”
― John Irving, The World According to Garp

“You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.”
― John Irving, The World According to Garp

“Nobody will protect you from your suffering. You can't cry it away or eat it away or starve it away or walk it away or punch it away or even therapy it away. It's just there, and you have to survive it. You have to endure it. You have to live through it and love it and move on and be better for it and run as far as you can in the direction of your best and happiest dreams across the bridge that was built by your own desire to heal.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

“Oh FUCK the longings and agonies of youth.”
― John Irving, The World According to Garp