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“No. Really. I’ve thought about it a lot. You learn to live with it, with them. Because they do stay with you, even if they’re not living, breathing people anymore. It’s not the same crushing grief you felt at first, the kind that swamps you and makes you want to cry in the wrong places and get irrationally angry with all the idiots who are still alive when the person you love is dead. It’s just something you learn to accommodate. Like adapting around a hole. I don’t know. It’s like you become . . . a doughnut instead of a bun.”
― After You
― After You
“You don't have to let that one thing be the thing that defines you.”
― After You
― After You
“I loved a man who had opened up a world to me but hadn’t loved me enough to stay in it.”
― After You
― After You
“The only way to avoid being left behind was to start moving.”
― After You
― After You
“You’re going to feel uncomfortable in your new world for a bit. It always does feel strange to be knocked out of your comfort zone . . . There is a hunger in you, Clark. A fearlessness. You just buried it, like most people do. Just live well. Just live.”
― After You
― After You
Michaela’s 2025 Year in Books
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