They are always there and, always, they reach into those inner places where I question my own goodness and doubt my self-worth. They suggest that I am not going to be loved without my having earned it through determined efforts and hard
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“Grief, I’ve learned, is really just love. It’s all the love you want to give, but cannot. All that unspent love gathers up in the corners of your eyes, the lump in your throat, and in that hollow part of your chest. Grief is just love with no place to go.”
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“[T]he luminous and shocking beauty of the everyday is something I try to remain alert to, if only as an antidote to the chronic cynicism and disenchantment that seems to surround everything, these days. It tells me that, despite how debased or corrupt we are told humanity is and how degraded the world has become, it just keeps on being beautiful. It can’t help it.”
― Faith, Hope and Carnage
― Faith, Hope and Carnage
“You can have everything and feel nothing.”
― The Midnight Library
― The Midnight Library
“It’s challenging to write away from the known and the familiar.”
― Faith, Hope and Carnage
― Faith, Hope and Carnage
“The condition of the soul can be treated independently of the situation one finds oneself in.”
― Faith, Hope and Carnage
― Faith, Hope and Carnage
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