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I touch her face. I don’t recognize her. I think: This girl is motherless. This girl has nothing.
“Will having a newborn distract from the time we have together?" she asked. "Don't you think saying goodbye to your child will make your death more painful?"
"Wouldn't it be great if it did?" I said. Lucy and I both felt that life wasn't about avoiding suffering.”
― When Breath Becomes Air
"Wouldn't it be great if it did?" I said. Lucy and I both felt that life wasn't about avoiding suffering.”
― When Breath Becomes Air
“Regret is like a heavy stone you carry around in your pockey. You know that it is useless. You know that it is weighing you down. But you just can't seem to throw it away.”
― The New Normal
― The New Normal
“The main message of Jesus, I believed, is that mercy trumps justice every time.”
― When Breath Becomes Air
― When Breath Becomes Air
“Some things you know all your life. They are so simple and true they must be said without elegance, meter and rhyme...they must be naked and alone, they must stand for themselves.”
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“Human knowledge is never contained in one person. It grows from the relationships we create between each other and the world, and still it is never complete.”
― When Breath Becomes Air
― When Breath Becomes Air
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