You’ve been here before. It won’t kill you. It feels like you can’t breathe, but you actually are breathing. It feels like you’ll never stop crying, but you actually will.
“It is impossible to live without danger, Ashley explains. The danger is always there, the hazard of wasted lives, of decades bent over a desk, of squalid and lonely deaths in hospital beds. Fools turned their faces away from danger and pretended at immunity, but others went to the fountainhead of life.”
― The Steady Running of the Hour
― The Steady Running of the Hour
“know that blowing off a workout, a date, an afternoon to organize your closet, or some previous commitment to yourself doesn’t seem like a big deal—but it is. It’s a really big deal. Our words have power, but our actions shape our lives.”
― Girl, Wash Your Face: Stop Believing the Lies About Who You Are so You Can Become Who You Were Meant to Be
― Girl, Wash Your Face: Stop Believing the Lies About Who You Are so You Can Become Who You Were Meant to Be
“...the air a library and the record of every life lived, every sentence spoken, every word transmitted still reverberating within it.”
― All the Light We Cannot See
― All the Light We Cannot See
“For every exit, there is also an entrance.”
― The Mysterious Benedict Society
― The Mysterious Benedict Society
“How do you ever know for certain that you are doing the right thing?”
― All the Light We Cannot See
― All the Light We Cannot See
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