“Secrets. We think by keeping them, we're controlling things, but all the while, they're controlling us.”
― The Next Person You Meet in Heaven
― The Next Person You Meet in Heaven
“But just because you have silenced a memory does not mean you are free of it.”
― The Next Person You Meet in Heaven
― The Next Person You Meet in Heaven
“it was better to be alone than to be stuck with people who were supposed to love you, yet couldn’t.”
― My Year of Rest and Relaxation
― My Year of Rest and Relaxation
“I was so ashamed. It made me hard on you, when I was trying to be hard on me. We are blinded by our regrets, Annie. We don’t realize who else we punish while we’re punishing ourselves.”
― The Next Person You Meet in Heaven
― The Next Person You Meet in Heaven
“Sleep felt productive. Something was getting sorted out. I knew in my heart—this was, perhaps, the only thing my heart knew back then—that when I'd slept enough, I'd be okay. I'd be renewed, reborn. I would be a whole new person, every one of my cells regenerated enough times that the old cells were just distant, foggy memories. My past life would be but a dream, and I could start over without regrets, bolstered by the bliss and serenity that I would have accumulated in my year of rest and relaxation.”
― My Year of Rest and Relaxation
― My Year of Rest and Relaxation
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