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“No, she wasn’t an artist. But that didn’t mean she couldn’t play. There was something so sensual about it, about painting the plump, juicy rounds of a crimson drop of blood, something so transporting about losing herself in the curve of the brush against the surface. It was the only time she could stop thinking. She became the colors, the light, a prism through which something could be reflected, however poorly.”
― A Piece of Heaven
― A Piece of Heaven
“Life has sorrows that layer inside of you, and sometimes those sorrows flow unchecked by pride. It hurts to be human.”
― Tricks of the Mind
― Tricks of the Mind
“it takes hard work to get lucky.”
― Trail of Secrets
― Trail of Secrets
“It feels like this perfectly glassy ocean. Like being out on the ocean but no surf and no swells and no wind. Just all this silence. All this lack of movement. Nothing moves at all. The world is just still. Which almost sounds nice, except it doesn’t feel nice. There’s some kind of heaviness to it. It feels dark and thick. And it gets even less nice when all of a sudden you realize you’re a sailboat. And you’re just going nowhere.”
― Falling Apart and Other Gifts from the Universe
― Falling Apart and Other Gifts from the Universe
“AA Supplemental Materials—Just For Today Just for today I will try to live through this day only, and not tackle all my problems at once. I can do something for twelve hours that would appall me if I felt that I had to keep it up for a lifetime. Just for today I will be happy. This assumes what Abraham Lincoln said to be true, that “Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.” Just for today I will adjust myself to what is, and not try to adjust everything to my own desires, I will take my “luck” as it comes and fit myself to it.”
― A Piece of Heaven
― A Piece of Heaven
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