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“I have a friend who said to me in the middle of the pandemic, “This pandemic is making everyone who they are with an exclamation point.”
― Uncle of the Year: & Other Debatable Triumphs
― Uncle of the Year: & Other Debatable Triumphs
“Life has given you a path, even if it’s not your preferred one.”
― Miss Cecily's Recipes for Exceptional Ladies
― Miss Cecily's Recipes for Exceptional Ladies
“Beneath the outward signs of deterioration, the same spirit dwells and looks on with dismay at the devastation the years have wrought.”
― Miss Cecily's Recipes for Exceptional Ladies
― Miss Cecily's Recipes for Exceptional Ladies
“But the hardest thing is staying. The hardest thing is living with dying. Loving with dying. The hardest thing is love, with no expiration date, no qualifiers, no safety net. Love that demands acceptance of all things I cannot change. Love that doesn't follow a plan.”
― My Oxford Year
― My Oxford Year
“I came to Oxford looking for a Once-in-a-Lifetime Experience. I chose to experience a lifetime.
I know that one day he will lose to the waterfall, slip behind its turbulent curtain forever, lost to me like something out of a fairy tale. But in our story, there's no villain, no witch, no fairy godmother, no moral imperative or cautionary conclusion. No happily-ever-after.
It just is. It's life.
The water keeps flowing as we come and go.
We were never forever, Jamie and I. Nothing is in this life. But if you love someone and are loved by someone, you might find forever after.
Whatever and wherever it is.”
― My Oxford Year
I know that one day he will lose to the waterfall, slip behind its turbulent curtain forever, lost to me like something out of a fairy tale. But in our story, there's no villain, no witch, no fairy godmother, no moral imperative or cautionary conclusion. No happily-ever-after.
It just is. It's life.
The water keeps flowing as we come and go.
We were never forever, Jamie and I. Nothing is in this life. But if you love someone and are loved by someone, you might find forever after.
Whatever and wherever it is.”
― My Oxford Year
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