When she stood against the sun, I half expected to see light stream through her like a stained-glass window, with a frame of bones instead of lead.
“The same universe that dispassionately takes things away can bring you things you weren't imaginative enough to dream up.”
― Funny Story
― Funny Story
“Whatever is awaiting me is awaiting me. For now, let’s live.”
― The Life Impossible
― The Life Impossible
“I always think that the quickest way to understand someone is to look at what’s on their bookshelves. Especially if they are honest bookshelves, not the fancy ornamental kind. And there was nothing fancy or ornamental about this place.”
― The Life Impossible
― The Life Impossible
“Life sings and blazes. Even when we are numb to it, when we hide from it, when it is too loud and painful to experience, when we aren’t equipped to feel it – it is there, waiting, to be cherished and protected, ready to give us at least one more blast of beauty before the night.”
― The Life Impossible
― The Life Impossible
“Eating watermelon in the sun was such a wonderful feeling I wondered why I hadn’t spent more of my life doing it. I wondered why it wasn’t everyone’s aspiration. I wondered why every successful businessperson on the planet continued to work and visit offices and stare at computers when they could just quit and eat watermelon in the sun for ever.”
― The Life Impossible
― The Life Impossible
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