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“I have come to believe after eighty-one years on this earth that our job in life is to endure, to be kind, and to constantly put the past behind us and not dwell too much on the future. If you must look back, try to find the beauty and the
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“Alice once said that anger and sadness are just two different sides of the same coin.”
― The Berry Pickers
― The Berry Pickers
“I don’t have time for regret, or the emotional strength it requires. I see the world unfolding as it is meant to. Sometimes I have trouble finding meaning in the things that happen to me, but I assume that the universe knows what it’s doing.”
― The Berry Pickers
― The Berry Pickers
“Anger is exhausting. Holding on to it will drain the life out of you.”
― The Berry Pickers
― The Berry Pickers
“Somehow, while we had all been busy, while we had been doing those small things that added up to living, the future had slipped into the present - and despite the fact that we had known that it would come, the overwhelming feeling, now that it was here, was of surprise, like waking up one morning to find that you had been young, and now all at once you weren't.”
― The High House
― The High House
“I found it strange that no word exists for a parent who loses a child. If children lose their parents, they are orphans. If a husband loses his wife, he’s a widower. But there’s no word for a parent who loses a child. I’ve come to believe that the event is just too big, too monstrous, too overwhelming for words. No word could ever describe the feeling, so we leave it unsaid.”
― The Berry Pickers
― The Berry Pickers
Cheryl’s 2025 Year in Books
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