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Chelsea
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Reminds me of my health and how I’m still battling, even on the good days. Also made me think of a piece by Joan Didion called In Bed where she mentions how after a migraine, she feels refreshed and clearheaded. Same.
“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
“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 remember thinking I wanted to die rather than live through another February day of grayness; I didn’t tell anyone because I knew it wasn’t normal. And normal was all I ever wanted to be.”
― Making a Pearl from the Grit of Life
― Making a Pearl from the Grit of Life
“Sitting around miserable all day won't make you any happier.”
― The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
― The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
“Whereupon a strange euphoria came over me. Not only was I exiled, paralyzed, mute, half deaf, deprived of all pleasures, and reduced to the existence of a jellyfish, but I was also horrible to behold. There comes a time when the heaping up of calamities brings on uncontrollable nervous laughter - when, after a final blow from fate, we decide to treat it all as a joke.”
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