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Kayla Sharpe
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Anastasia
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This is my fantasy of the happy ending Anastasia deserved. Not because she was a Romanov, but because she was a human.
“I was a closed book, a rolled map, a dark territory, uncharted; I was surprised by my urgency, but after all, to be known was to exist.”
― The Girl from Everywhere
― The Girl from Everywhere
“The Million Ways To Fail
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Tuesday, June 30, 2015
Here’s how you fail: You fail with your heart on your sleeve.
You fail like you mean it with every part of you.
You fail attempting the impossible and the ridiculous.
You fail in front of others and you fail and they laugh at you and you fail and you feel nothing and regret less.
You fail sincerely and earnestly and you risk everything at every opportunity.
This is how you fail: You fail beautifully
You fail with grace.”
― I Wrote This for You, 2007-2017
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Tuesday, June 30, 2015
Here’s how you fail: You fail with your heart on your sleeve.
You fail like you mean it with every part of you.
You fail attempting the impossible and the ridiculous.
You fail in front of others and you fail and they laugh at you and you fail and you feel nothing and regret less.
You fail sincerely and earnestly and you risk everything at every opportunity.
This is how you fail: You fail beautifully
You fail with grace.”
― I Wrote This for You, 2007-2017
“Pain is unrelenting. It will get our attention. Despite our attempts to drown it in addiction, to physically beat it out of one another, to suffocate it with success and material trappings, or to strangle it with our hate, pain will find a way to make itself known.”
― Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone
― Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone
“To love a handful of people very well, that's a good life.”
― A Million Junes
― A Million Junes
“I think we worship these stories of leaving it all behind and going somewhere new, but I’m beginning to see that every one of those stories has the same truth holding up this romantic idea of leaving: The stuff you’re not facing will follow you. It will get in the car too. It will pack a bag too. Leaving isn’t the key; changing is. I’m learning that life isn’t about the destinations we can boast about getting to; it’s about all the walking in between that feels pointless when you try to take a picture of it because no one will understand it like you do. It’s the in between stuff that fleshes out a story—gives it guts and transformation.
It’s not about the scenery changing or the person you say good night to. The traveler must be the one to change. That’s what makes the story good.”
― Come Matter Here: Your Invitation to Be Here in a Getting There World
It’s not about the scenery changing or the person you say good night to. The traveler must be the one to change. That’s what makes the story good.”
― Come Matter Here: Your Invitation to Be Here in a Getting There World
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