“It doesn't matter how busy life's been, how long the live of us have gone without seeing one another: meeting at the cottage is like pulling on a favorite sweatshirt, worn to perfection. Time doesn't move the same way when we're there.”
― Happy Place
― Happy Place
“I imagined them all thinking it was worth it. Telling me how much they loved me. All my life, when I thought of my future, that was what I pictured. Not a career. The things I thought would come with it. Happiness, love, safety. And that dream had been enough for a long time. What was school if not a chance to earn your worth? To prove, again and again, that you were measurably good. One more deal I struck with a disinterested universe: If I'm good enough, I'll be happy. I'll be loved. I'll be safe.”
― Happy Place
― Happy Place
“And not knowing something doesn’t make a person stupid, Wyn.” “Oh,” he says, amused. “Then what does?” After a moment’s thought, I say, “An unwillingness to learn.”
― Happy Place
― Happy Place
“Things change, but we stretch and grow and make room for one another.
Our love is a place we can always come back to, and it will be waiting, the same as it ever was.
You belong here. ”
― Happy Place
Our love is a place we can always come back to, and it will be waiting, the same as it ever was.
You belong here. ”
― Happy Place
“I want my life to be like-like making pottery. I want to enjoy it while it's happening, not just for where it might get me eventually.”
― Happy Place
― Happy Place
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