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“Sometimes you have to leave so you can know what it is you left. You don’t really value something until you’ve lost it.”
“Life is an act of faith.”
― Brida
― Brida
“Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.”
― The Da Vinci Code
― The Da Vinci Code
“You drink to escape the emotional pain you’re in, and then the next day you do it all over again to get rid of the physical pain. So you drink more and your drink more often and pretty soon you’re drunk all the time and it becomes just as bad, if not worse, than the reality you were attempting to escape from in the first place. Only now, you need an escape from the escape, so you find something even stronger than the alcohol. And maybe that’s what turns alcoholics into addicts.”
― Confess
― Confess
“Having the courage to take the steps we always wanted to take is the only way of showing that we trust in God.”
― Brida
― Brida
“I think love is a hard word to define,” I say to her. “You can love a lot of things about a person but still not love the whole person.”
― Confess
― Confess
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