Finding Me
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Memories are immortal. They’re deathless and precise. They have the power of giving you joy and perspective in hard times. Or, they can strangle you. Define you in a way that’s based more in other people’s tucked-up perceptions than truth.
“A penguin love stone. When a male likes a female, he finds a perfect stone and he brings it to her. If she likes it, she puts it in her nest and that’s it. They’re paired for life.”
― Part of Your World
― Part of Your World
“Sometimes you have to be okay with other people not being okay with you. And you have to be okay with you not being okay too.”
― Counting the Cost
― Counting the Cost
“Memories are immortal. They’re deathless and precise. They have the power of giving you joy and perspective in hard times. Or, they can strangle you. Define you in a way that’s based more in other people’s tucked-up perceptions than truth.”
― Finding Me
― Finding Me
“Why are you trying to heal her? I think she was pretty tough. She survived.”
― Finding Me
― Finding Me
“I wonder if humans are the only living creatures that ever feel hollow inside. I don’t understand how my body can be full of everything bodies are full of—bones and muscles and blood and organs—yet my chest sometimes feels vacant, as if someone could scream into my mouth and it would echo inside of me.”
― Regretting You
― Regretting You
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