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Like june bugs bouncing off a windshield, the idea simply won’t stick.
“Laughter is poison to fear.”
― A Game of Thrones
― A Game of Thrones
“Sitting around miserable all day won't make you any happier.”
― The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
― The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
“Do you see the irony at all, Tristan?’
I stare at him and shake my head. He seems determined not to speak again until I do. ‘What irony?’ I ask eventually, the words tumbling out in a hurried heap. ‘That I am to be shot as a coward while you get to live as one.”
― The Absolutist
I stare at him and shake my head. He seems determined not to speak again until I do. ‘What irony?’ I ask eventually, the words tumbling out in a hurried heap. ‘That I am to be shot as a coward while you get to live as one.”
― The Absolutist
“I wanted to live more than I wanted to die. I didn’t know how to live. I didn’t know how I would be able to live life on life’s terms. But I know God carried me to the end of that journey so I could start a new one. In those few days, God brought me to the point of willingness again, to start down a path with an unknown destination.”
― Making a Pearl from the Grit of Life
― Making a Pearl from the Grit of Life
“I never asked my mother where babies came from but I remember clearly the day she volunteered the information....my mother called me to set the table for dinner. She sat me down in the kitchen, and under the classic caveat of 'loving each other very, very much,' explained that when a man and a woman hug tightly, the man plants a seed in the woman. The seed grows into a baby. Then she sent me to the pantry to get placemats. As a direct result of this conversation, I wouldn't hug my father for two months.”
― I Was Told There'd Be Cake: Essays
― I Was Told There'd Be Cake: Essays
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