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Grief is for People by Sloane Crosley

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We tend to scrape up all the lonely, echoing, unknowable parts of ourselves and drop them in drawers or hang them from little wooden shelves, injecting our feelings into objects that won’t judge or abandon us, holding on to the past in this ...more

Shruti’s Quotes

“There's a lot of magic between you too, ain't no denying that. And magic makes forgettin' hard.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Best of Me

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“Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect.”
― Rob Reiner

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“Listen, and you will realize that we are made not from cells or from atoms. We are made from stories.”
― Mia Couto

tags: humanity, stories, storytelling

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“There are dreamers and there are realists in this world. You'd think the dreamers would find the dreamers, and the realists would find the realists, but more often than not, the opposite is true.
See, the dreamers need the realists to keep them from soaring too close to the sun.
And the realists?
Well, without the dreamers, they might not ever get off the ground.”
― Modern Family

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