“Never give up on someone with a mental illness. When "I" is replaced by "We", illness becomes wellness.”
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“There are no coincidences in life. What person that wandered in and out of your life was there for some purpose, even if they caused you harm. Sometimes, it doesn’t make sense the short periods of time we get with people, or the outcomes from their choices. However, if you turn it over to God he promises that you will see the big picture in the hereafter. Nothing is too small to be a mistake.”
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“...until that moment I had not understood that this was a story about lonely people, about absence and loss, and that that was why I had taken refuge in it until it became confused with my own life, like someone who has escaped into the pages of a novel because those whom he needs to love seem nothing more than ghosts inhabiting the mind of a stranger.”
― The Shadow of the Wind
― The Shadow of the Wind
“Sometimes those who give the most are the ones with the least to spare.”
― The Kindness of Strangers
― The Kindness of Strangers
“I made a t-shirt that says, "Today's my birthday" on it, so that I can ask for hugs from strangers and point to the text on my tee as the reason why they should oblige. It's not a once-a-year t-shirt, as I wear it every Tuesday.”
― This Book is Not for Sale
― This Book is Not for Sale
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