“You make all your mistakes with your own children so by the time your grandchildren arrive, you know how to get it right. Plus, once you turn fifty, you kind of stop giving a shit what others think.”
― The Year We Turned Forty
― The Year We Turned Forty
“How many times can a heart be broken before it is beyond mend? How many times can I wish to not be alive? How can one human being cause such a crack in my existence? I alternate between periods of numbness and inconceivable pain all in the span of -- an hour? An hour feels like a day, a day feels like a week. I want to live, and then I want to die. I want to cry, and then I want to scream.”
― Thief
― Thief
“Sometimes you just have to put on lip gloss and pretend to be psyched.”
― Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
― Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
“It is a special kind of homelessness to be evicted from your dreams.”
― Sleep Donation
― Sleep Donation
“Friendship, then, like the other natural loves, is unable to save itself. In reality, because it is spiritual and therefore faces a subtler enemy, it must, even more wholeheartedly than they, invoke the divine protection if it hopes to remain sweet. For consider how narrow its true path is. Is must not become what the people call a "mutual admiration society"; yet if it is not full of mutual admiration, of Appreciative love, it is not Friendship at all.”
― The Four Loves
― The Four Loves
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