Stephanie
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When you’re the Woman Upstairs, nobody thinks of you first. Nobody calls you before anyone else, or sends you the first postcard. Once your mother dies, nobody loves you best of all.
Reading this only a few weeks after my own mother's passing I realized this is why I love reading. Sometimes we find our own feelings articulated in a way we couldn't put a finger on ourselves.
“More than anything, I know that you just have to choose to make the best of things. You get one life, and it only goes forward. And there really are all kinds of happy endings.”
― How to Walk Away
― How to Walk Away
“Life is one revelation after another. Things don’t always go to plan, no matter what your circumstances. But the flip side is all the unexpected, wonderful things that you could never have imagined happening. Ultimately it’s all for the best that many things don’t turn out the way we hoped. Try not to think of upset plans or schedules as personal failure or bad luck. If you can do that, then you can change, in your own self and in your life overall.” Then she looked off into the distance and smiled.”
― What You Are Looking for is in the Library
― What You Are Looking for is in the Library
“What do you believe in?” asked David. “I believe in those whom I love and trust. All else is foolishness. This god is as empty as his church. His followers choose to attribute all of their good fortune to him, but when he ignores their pleas or leaves them to suffer, they say only that he is beyond their understanding and abandon themselves to his will. What kind of god is that?”
― The Book of Lost Things
― The Book of Lost Things
“The greater our capacity for sorrow becomes, the greater our capacity for joy.”
― How to Walk Away
― How to Walk Away
“Singles are envious of those who are married, and married couples envy those with children, but people with children are envious of singles. It’s an endless merry-go-round. But isn’t that funny? That each person should be chasing the tail of the person in front of them, when no one is coming first or last. In other words, when it comes to happiness nothing is better or worse—there is no definitive state.”
― What You Are Looking for is in the Library
― What You Are Looking for is in the Library
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