and it’s a spill of light, crowding everything else from his face. “Nothing like the first swallow.”
“wonder if this war could actually be a form of alchemy—changing us, testing us, until each of us has revealed the truest part of our souls.”
― The Lost Vintage
― The Lost Vintage
“Because once you become a parent, you learn that love can involve more fear than you had ever imagined, and you never quite look on the world in the same way again.”
― I Am Watching You
― I Am Watching You
“All I will say is that you show up for your friends on their hardest days. And you hold their hand through the roughest parts. Life is about who is holding your hand and, I think, whose hand you commit to holding.”
― Daisy Jones & The Six
― Daisy Jones & The Six
“But though the pursuit of pleasure was encouraged, ambition was considered unseemly. Hard work had to be hidden, and success needed to appear effortless, even accidental. It”
― The Lost Vintage
― The Lost Vintage
“The best thing is to grieve for the people you loved and lost, and then welcome and love the new people life puts in front of you.”
― Beneath a Scarlet Sky
― Beneath a Scarlet Sky
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