“Life is too short, too fragile, too precious to hide in the shadows of what might have been. If continuously looking behind, you risk missing the possibilities that lie ahead.”
“Many times I wondered why my mom continued to survive, why her body pressed on without her in it, why we couldn’t let this vibrant, beautiful woman go with dignity instead of acting as bystanders to her decline. I’ve learned our culture is not necessarily one of compassion. We champion those who suffer, even while we don’t want to suffer ourselves.”
― Braver Than You Think: Around the World on the Trip of My (Mother’s) Lifetime
― Braver Than You Think: Around the World on the Trip of My (Mother’s) Lifetime
“What you seek is what you will find, but only if you hunt it with all your heart and mind.”
― The Last Green Valley
― The Last Green Valley
“We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us. —MARCEL PROUST”
― Home Front
― Home Front
“You used to be a human dynamo, it whispers. You used to throw yourself at things. You used to rise to any challenge. But have you actually done anything, anything at all of worth, in the last half a century? I”
― How the Penguins Saved Veronica
― How the Penguins Saved Veronica
“I was so afraid of you. Of how much I missed you and how much I loved you and how much I failed you.”
― The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot
― The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot
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