“I’ve loved some very sad people in my life and hurt myself trying to get them to change. They didn’t, and I have no business being surprised by it. People will tell you who they are. It takes an emergency for some of us to listen.”
― Stray: A Memoir
― Stray: A Memoir
“Time heals all wounds. And if it doesn't, you name them something other than wounds and agree to let them stay.”
― Your Voice in My Head
― Your Voice in My Head
“You're both the fire and the water that extinguishes it. You're the narrator, the protagonist, and the sidekick. You're the storyteller and the story told. You are somebody's something, but you are also your you.”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
“We are imperfect mortal beings, aware of that mortality even as we push it away, failed by our very complication, so wired that when we mourn our losses we also mourn, for better or for worse, ourselves. as we were. as we are no longer. as we will one day not be at all.”
― The Year of Magical Thinking
― The Year of Magical Thinking
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