“If clouds are blocking the sun, there will always be a silver lining that reminds me to keep on trying.”
― The Silver Linings Playbook
― The Silver Linings Playbook
“Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly. Literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it is still possible for us to endure nobly.”
― The Silver Linings Playbook
― The Silver Linings Playbook
“When you give your heart away, you usually get it back in pieces, fragments. And often, a great deal of time passes before you realize that every piece wasn’t returned to you—and probably never will be. You crave nothing more than to get those small—but vital—fragments back; to return to the unbroken, undamaged version of yourself. But what's been broken cannot be unbroken, and so all you can do is learn to live with the void of the missing pieces, to somehow find beauty in the wreckage.
And so I did.
Sophie Lenon”
― My Darrling
And so I did.
Sophie Lenon”
― My Darrling
“Well, God knows you're barely standing but you've got to carry this heavy load.”
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“One way at a time I'll try to lend these broken hands of mine give my strength, be my light.”
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