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explain. “You get a dog and you know two things—you’re going to fall in love with it and it’s going to die one day. You knowingly walk headfirst into a heartbreak. That’s the basic madness of dog ownership.”
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Hal Higdon
“Even when you have gone as far as you can, and everything hurts, and you are staring at the specter of self-doubt, you can find a bit more strength deep inside you, if you look closely enough.”
Hal Higdon

Carlos Ruiz Zafón
“Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.”
Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Patrick Ness
“Belief is half of all healing. Belief in the cure, belief in the future that awaits.”
Patrick Ness, (A Monster Calls)

Karen   White
“Things do not always work out as we have planned, do they? Sometimes the hardest thing is not to just survive the grief, but to step around it and move on. It helps if your suitcases are not so full.”
Karen White, The Time Between

Matthew Dicks
“It's strange how teachers can go off to college for all those years to learn to become teachers, but some of them never learn the easy stuff. Like making kids laugh. And making sure they know that you love them.”
Matthew Dicks, Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend

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