“Reality is crushing. The world is a wrong-sized shoe. How can anyone stand it?”
― I'll Give You the Sun
― I'll Give You the Sun
“Even if you learn something and think you're good at it, there'll always be someone who's better.”
― Nothing
― Nothing
“Life doesn't have to be only anxiety about what's gone wrong, and complaints about the world around you.”
― How to Save a Life
― How to Save a Life
“To love someone is like moving into a house," Sonja used to say. "At first you fall in love in everything new, you wonder every morning that this is one's own, as if they are afraid that someone will suddenly come tumbling through the door and say that there has been a serious mistake and that it simply was not meant to would live so fine. But as the years go by, the facade worn, the wood cracks here and there, and you start to love this house not so much for all the ways it is perfect in that for all the ways it is not. You become familiar with all its nooks and crannies. How to avoid that the key gets stuck in the lock if it is cold outside. Which floorboards have some give when you step on them, and exactly how to open the doors for them not to creak. That's it, all the little secrets that make it your home.”
― A Man Called Ove
― A Man Called Ove
“The thing about grief is that you have to let yourself feel it. Even the worst parts. Especially the worst parts. Pass through it. Let it pass through you.
It´s your strenght-your humanity-your openness to your feelings. Even when you think you might not come through.”
― Lovely, Dark and Deep
It´s your strenght-your humanity-your openness to your feelings. Even when you think you might not come through.”
― Lovely, Dark and Deep
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