Love, Mom
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“Sometimes the smallest things in life, so tiny we barely acknowledge them, can change us in the most profound way.”
“Find your people and treat each day like a lifetime.”
― They Both Die at the End
― They Both Die at the End
“Beyond all the poetry, beyond all the songs, love is this, my dear: it’s an expansion of the self. It’s when the boundaries of the self spread out to include someone else, and what used to be them now becomes you.”
― Wellness
― Wellness
“She finally comprehended parenthood’s strange paradox: that it was deeply annihilating while at the same time also somehow deeply comforting. It was both soul-devouring and soul-filling.”
― Wellness
― Wellness
“And the only thing she was certain of was this: that between ourselves and the world are a million stories, and if we don’t know which among them are true, we might as well try out those that are most humane, most generous, most beautiful, most loving.”
― Wellness
― Wellness
“And other people’s attention feels exhausting because their expectations come across as an impossible obligation.”
― Wellness
― Wellness
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