usually your kids’ positive qualities come less from your making them awesome and more from just not intentionally squashing the random things they’re inherently born with that make them awesome.
“It happened so slowly that you might not even notice it at all, like the sky turning from dusk to dark.”
― Our Missing Hearts
― Our Missing Hearts
“You don’t always have to do stuff. Or achieve stuff. You don’t have to spend your free time productively. You don’t have to be doing Tai Chi and DIY and bread-making. Sometimes you can just be and feel things and get through and eat chips and survive, and that is more than enough.”
― The Comfort Book
― The Comfort Book
“one point he brushed my hand and there was electricity, but I think that was the combination of the deep carpet outside the restaurant and my new cardigan.”
― The Bullet That Missed
― The Bullet That Missed
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