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The pressure of being a perfectionist, the unarticulated terror of not being an automatic expert. It would pass, she knew, but that never calmed her jangling nerves or settled her stomach at the time.
“Time is luck. You grab it. You hold on tight. And you be there. You have to be there for it. It’s going, with or without you. And no one knows for how long. No one knows.”
― Drowning
― Drowning
“We can live a billion different ways from here, but there’s only one path behind us. That was never going to change.”
― How It Unfolds
― How It Unfolds
“Life is measured in birthdays. Graduations. Weddings. First steps. A first crush. A first kiss. Firsts, not lasts, are the tallies on a life’s scorecard.”
― Drowning
― Drowning
“And that was all life was. Shifting the balance, every day, to make room for joy and grace in whatever circumstances you’ve got before your time runs out.”
― Drowning
― Drowning
“I’ve been lonely for a long time. Sure, I’ve had friends, colleagues, so I’m not isolated. But I still feel it. It’s the deep, lasting kind of loneliness. The hollow kind that settles in your bones.”
― Keeper of Enchanted Rooms
― Keeper of Enchanted Rooms
Mehrnoosh’s 2025 Year in Books
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