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“Well, I guess you can’t always rely on feeling in love. That comes and goes. It’s a decision, too, you know. You have to look after it. The more you can make the other person feel loved, fill their tank as it were, the more they have in their reserve to make you feel loved.”
― The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife
― The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
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“What a blessing sleep could be sometimes, a merciful relief from dementia, from pain, from grief. A brief holiday where there were no suitcases full of burdens to carry. In dreams you could forget that you didn’t remember, and remember those who were no longer there.”
― The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife
― The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife
“Hooray for differences! Without them, there would be no harmony. In principles, great clarity. In practices, great charity.”
― Lighten Up!
― Lighten Up!
“They say that time heals, yet the ache still caught his breath. Grief is often invisible to the outside world—Fred was like still water whose reflection mirrored the sun but concealed dark and murky depths underneath. He often wondered how his body still held together when his soul had broken into a million pieces.”
― The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife
― The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife
Marissa’s 2025 Year in Books
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