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Every choice changed the road you were on and it was too easy to end up going in the wrong direction.
“Although it’s good to try new things and to keep an open mind, it’s also extremely important to stay true to who you really are.”
― Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
― Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
“The only thing the sport gives us are moments. But what the hell is life, Peter, apart from moments?”
― Beartown
― Beartown
“You won’t understand what I mean now, but someday you will: the only trick of friendship, I think, is to find people who are better than you are—not smarter, not cooler, but kinder, and more generous, and more forgiving—and then to appreciate them for what they can teach you, and to try to listen to them when they tell you something about yourself, no matter how bad—or good—it might be, and to trust them, which is the hardest thing of all. But the best, as well.”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
“...things get broken, and sometimes they get repaired, and in most cases, you realize that no matter what gets damaged, life rearranges itself to compensate for your loss, sometimes wonderfully.”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
“Why wasn’t friendship as good as a relationship? Why wasn’t it even better? It was two people who remained together, day after day, bound not by sex or physical attraction or money or children or property, but only by the shared agreement to keep going, the mutual dedication to a union that could never be codified.”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
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