“I think," he finally said, choosing his words carefully, "that nothing lasts forever. Not the good things, not the bad. So just find what makes you happy, and do it for as long as you can.”
― The Seven Year Slip
― The Seven Year Slip
“This is anger like nothing I’ve known before. It’s an anger so raw, so potent it’s actually calming, like a feeling that’s finally found its place, a feeling that finally sits comfortably as it settles into my bones.”
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“It felt nice to do something for me again. To just be. No to-do lists to keep pushing myself through, no expectations. Just me.”
― The Seven Year Slip
― The Seven Year Slip
“I wonder how much love is out there like that, really. I wonder if I'll ever find it. And if I do, I hope I deserve it.
Maybe we don't find it. It doesn't just appear. It's not fantasy, not a fairy tale. We make choices, note after note, chord after chord, until we create it.”
― Leather & Lark
Maybe we don't find it. It doesn't just appear. It's not fantasy, not a fairy tale. We make choices, note after note, chord after chord, until we create it.”
― Leather & Lark
“Sometimes the people you loved left you halfway through a story. Sometimes they left you without a goodbye. And, sometimes, they stayed around in little ways. In the memory of a musical. In the smell of their perfume. In the sound of the rain, and the itch for adventure, and the yearning for that liminal space between one airport terminal and the next.”
― The Seven Year Slip
― The Seven Year Slip
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