“I have something really important to tell you,” he said. “Are you ready? It’s really important. It’s breaking news.” “Tell me.” “I’ll love you forever.” “I already knew that,” I said. “And I’ll love you forever, too.” “Yeah?” “Yeah,” I
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“It’s not always enough to go looking for the place we belong. Sometimes we need to make that place.”
― The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
― The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
“I reminded myself to live for today, not the fears of tomorrow—a promise I had made to myself when I started working in hospice.”
― The In-Between: Unforgettable Encounters During Life's Final Moments
― The In-Between: Unforgettable Encounters During Life's Final Moments
“In that moment I understood that the cruelest words in the universe are if only.”
― Peony in Love
― Peony in Love
“I know again why I favor it so much here, how I esteem the hush of this suburban foliage in every season, the surprising naturalness of its studied, human plan, how the privying hills and vales and dead-end lanes make one feel this indeed is the good and decent living, a cloister for those of us who are modest and unspecial. [p. 130}”
― A Gesture Life
― A Gesture Life
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