“because although you might be able to drum religion into people, you can’t teach faith.”
― Anxious People
― Anxious People
“God doesn't protect people from knives, sweetheart. That's why God gave us other people, so we can protect each other.”
― Anxious People
― Anxious People
“We give those we love nicknames, because love requires a word that belongs to us alone.”
― Anxious People
― Anxious People
“We need to be allowed to convince ourselves that we're more than the mistakes we made yesterday. That we are all of our next choices, too, all of our tomorrows.”
― Anxious People
― Anxious People
“They say that a person’s personality is the sum of their experiences. But that isn’t true, at least not entirely, because if our past was all that defined us, we’d never be able to put up with ourselves. We need to be allowed to convince ourselves that we’re more than the mistakes we made yesterday. That we are all of our next choices, too, all of our tomorrows.”
― Anxious People
― Anxious People
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