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“That’s what it always was for me. Wanting to capture it, preserve even the smallest, most stupid moments, so I could hold on to them for ever. So that they never had to end. Because in the back of my mind I knew that eventually, everything ends.”
― Things I Learned from Falling
― Things I Learned from Falling
“Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation. You cannot control what happens to you in life, but you can always control what you will feel and do about what happens to you.”
― Man's Search for Meaning
― Man's Search for Meaning
“Funny how when the words run out, in lust or in shock or in grief, we call to a God we don’t believe in any more.”
― The Other Wife
― The Other Wife
“Had they known at these moments to be quietly joyful? Most likely not. People mostly did not know enough when they were living life that they were living it.”
― Olive Kitteridge
― Olive Kitteridge
“I have to admit I was annoyed. Not physically annoyed, but inside annoyed. That helpless feeling you have when you know you should not be angry because you have to consider how other people are feeling or accept them for what they are, and that it is not your place to say anything. But annoyed because you have not been considered in the whole picture, you are there and that is that. Apologies begin to mean nothing at that point and frustration takes over.”
― Down Among the Dead Men: A Year in the Life of a Mortuary Technician
― Down Among the Dead Men: A Year in the Life of a Mortuary Technician
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