When adults let children down, children learn to let themselves down.
“Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them.”
― Life, the Truth, and Being Free
― Life, the Truth, and Being Free
“All good things in life are fragile and easily lost”
― And the Mountains Echoed
― And the Mountains Echoed
“It's a funny thing... but people mostly have it backward. They think they live by what they want. But really, what guides them is what they're afraid of. What they don't want.”
― And the Mountains Echoed
― And the Mountains Echoed
“We never let go of that,' Cecily said. 'I mean, even for parents - that's never not your baby, you know?'
"I think you're right." As he got sicker, it was more and more often how he thought of people--of Charlie, certainly, and of everyone else here or gone: not as the sum of all the disappointments, but as every beginning they'd ever represented, every promise.”
― The Great Believers
"I think you're right." As he got sicker, it was more and more often how he thought of people--of Charlie, certainly, and of everyone else here or gone: not as the sum of all the disappointments, but as every beginning they'd ever represented, every promise.”
― The Great Believers
“This is why old people seem distant and distracted, he thought. We aren’t living in the past; the past is living in us.”
― Buckeye
― Buckeye
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