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I felt like a lava lamp; the bits of plastic gloop bubbling around in me were actually bits of a dark sort of peace with death, a harmony with the knowledge that my son had died and that my own death would see me walk through a door he had
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“over the years, when I’d felt abandoned and scared and heard a voice in my mind say, “I want my mommy,” I took the note out and read it as a reminder of what she’d actually been like and how little she cared about me. It helped. Rejection, I have found, can be the only antidote to delusion.”
― My Year of Rest and Relaxation
― My Year of Rest and Relaxation
“That kind of love requires effort and discipline. It is the choice to expend energy in an effort to benefit the other person, knowing that if his or her life is enriched by your effort, you too will find a sense of satisfaction—the satisfaction of having genuinely loved another. It does not require the euphoria of the “in-love” experience. In fact, true love cannot begin until the “in-love” experience has run its course.”
― The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts
― The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts
“I need to be loved by someone who chooses to love me, who sees in me something worth loving.”
― The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts
― The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts
“This is New York City,” I said. “We don’t get earthquakes.”
― My Year of Rest and Relaxation
― My Year of Rest and Relaxation
“we all wanted to be veterinarians at some point—but it meant taking chemistry, and chemistry made me nervous.”
― Tom Lake
― Tom Lake
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