“But maybe winning isn’t the point. Maybe the point is that we tried. That we didn’t just let it happen without a fight.”
“We were finally comfortable in our own skin, and able to move through the world without comparison or envy or despair that we’d never be enough. Our bodies taught us the lesson of humility, because eventually, we were all the same.”
― Our Italian Summer
― Our Italian Summer
“Some love stories are meant to be temporary,”
― Our Italian Summer
― Our Italian Summer
“She is sure that tomorrow is not guaranteed and that too many women and men wait so long to say something, feel something, or go someplace. Too damn long”
― Annie Freeman's Fabulous Traveling Funeral
― Annie Freeman's Fabulous Traveling Funeral
“Maybe the human heart was just that messy, and all romance was deeply precarious, and the future was unresolved, and that was fine. Maybe that’s what true love actually was: an embrace of the chaotic unfolding. And maybe the only stories that had neat and certain conclusions were lies and fables and conspiracies. Maybe it was like Dr. Sanborne said: certainty was just a story the mind created to defend itself against the pain of living. Which meant, almost by definition, that certainty was a way to avoid living. You could choose to be certain, or you could choose to be alive.”
― Wellness
― Wellness
“Worry and life have kept her thin- you can stay thin lifting sick and dying people, driving to the hospital, and planning funerals.”
― Annie Freeman's Fabulous Traveling Funeral
― Annie Freeman's Fabulous Traveling Funeral
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