Deanna
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It is very difficult to author a good life when your unconscious mind is continually hijacking your actions in the service of keeping you safe.
“So much of what was best in life went unnoticed in the moments you had it.”
― The Fireman
― The Fireman
“I wonder whether I will ever breathe air that is clear of his ghost.”
― Falling Under
― Falling Under
“God does not waste an ounce of our pain or a drop of our tears; suffering doesn't come our way for no reason, and He seems efficient at using what we endure to mold character. If we are malleable, He takes our bumps and bruises and shapes them into something beautiful.”
― The Wounded Spirit
― The Wounded Spirit
“There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.”
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“But someday I'll fall in love again, right? I'll start over with someone, and maybe we'll buy a big old house with all this new money I have, and we'll have kids, and I'll be a professional writer, maybe even write some books. I'll have this whole great life, and it will be thanks to Hailey dying in a plane crash. And I don't know exactly at what point it will happen, but the time will come when I'll have crossed this line where maybe I wouldn't go back to save her, because I'll know that if it weren't for her dying, I wouldn't have this family I love, and this life I'm living. And the thought of that, of becoming the person who wouldn't go back to save her...”
― How to Talk to a Widower
― How to Talk to a Widower
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