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“But I will never forget how casually she referred to reality as "waking life". Not "consciousness" or "daytime" or plain "life," but a state on par with dreaming. I thought about that conversation a lot during those first weeks of spring, when the only thing that made my life a life was that I was awake for it.”
― Grief Is for People
― Grief Is for People
“Perhaps this is the plainest definition of anxiety: mourning what isn't gone yet. Anxiety is an ever-present stage of grief, a shadow attached to the heels of its more infamous siblings.”
― Grief Is for People: A Memoir
― Grief Is for People: A Memoir
“There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be. And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.”
― Babylon 5: The Scripts of J. Michael Straczynski, Vol. 2
― Babylon 5: The Scripts of J. Michael Straczynski, Vol. 2
“I laughed and said, Life is easy. What I meant was, Life is easy with you here, and when you leave, it will be hard again.”
― No One Belongs Here More Than You
― No One Belongs Here More Than You
“Thomas Merton wrote, “The more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you, in proportion to your fear of being hurt. The one who does most to avoid suffering is, in the end, the one who suffers most.”
― Grief Is for People
― Grief Is for People
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