“what if I never got another day in my life when I was normal again?”
― The Witch Elm
― The Witch Elm
“Choosing to love—despite all the ways that people let you down, and disappear, and break your heart. Knowing everything we know about how hard life is and choosing to love, anyway.. That’s not weakness, that’s courage.”
― Things You Save in a Fire
― Things You Save in a Fire
“It's amazing how brave you can be when you feel safe.”
― Things You Save in a Fire
― Things You Save in a Fire
“It’s not the easy moments that define who we are. It’s the hard ones.”
― Things You Save in a Fire
― Things You Save in a Fire
“It takes guts to walk into a burning building or staunch an arterial bleed—no question. But it also takes a special kind of brain. Firefighters think differently from other people, and this is especially true of me. Because when everybody else is panicking, when the entire whole world is freaking the heck out—that’s when I get calm.”
― Things You Save in a Fire
― Things You Save in a Fire
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