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Life After Life (Todd Family, #1)

by Kate Atkinson

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Jul 15, 2013 09:43AM

“And I began to let him go. Hour by hour. Days into months. It was a physical sensation, like letting out the string of a kite. Except that the string was coming from my center.”
― Augusten Burroughs, You Better Not Cry: Stories for Christmas

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“But she did love him. I believe it. I know exactly how that is. To love somebody who doesn't deserve it. Because they are all you have. Because any attention is better than no attention.”
― Augusten Burroughs, Running with Scissors

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“I missed him so much that I had physical sensations of loss, all over my body. Like one minute I was missing an arm, the next my spleen. It was making me feel sick, like throwing up.”
― Augusten Burroughs, Running with Scissors

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“You cannot control the results, only your actions.”
― Allan Lokos, Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living

tags: buddhism, compassion, insight, karma, meditation, mindfulness

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“Acceptance, when it comes, arrives in waves: Listen with your chest. You will feel a pendulum swing within you, favoring one direction or another. And that is your answer. The answer is always inside your chest. The right choice weighs more. That's how you know. It causes you to lean in its direction.”
― Augusten Burroughs, You Better Not Cry: Stories for Christmas

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