“I suppose in the end, the whole of life becomes an act of letting go, but what always hurts the most is not taking a moment to say goodbye.”
― Life of Pi
― Life of Pi
“I can finally see that all the terrible parts of my life, the embarrassing parts, the incidents I wanted to pretend never happened, and the things that make me "weird" and "different," were actually the most important parts of my life. They were the parts that made me ME.”
― Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir
― Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir
“That's the thing about pain. It demands to be felt”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars
“Lord Grantham: ‘My dear fellow. We all have chapters we would rather keep unpublished.”
― The World of Downton Abbey
― The World of Downton Abbey
“How strange and how lovely it is to be anything at all.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars
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