“I breathe in sharply, and then I breathe out slowly. Life is just a series of breaths in and out. All I really have to do in this world is breathe in and then breathe out, in succession, until I die. I can do that. I can breathe in and out.”
― Maybe in Another Life
― Maybe in Another Life
“How much do you trade to defeat loneliness?”
― Where the Crawdads Sing
― Where the Crawdads Sing
“That’s what winter is: an exercise in remembering how to still yourself then how to come pliantly back to life again.”
― Winter
― Winter
“I have chosen happiness. Out of all the emotions set out on the table, I have selected it. It is by far the superior option. It’s insane to think I would have ever picked one of those shittier emotions before—when all the while, I could have chosen shiny, shimmering, iridescent happiness.”
― Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead
― Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead
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