“Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.”
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“I would love to report that what I found in the prosperity gospel was something so foreign and terrible to me that I was warned away, but what I discovered was both familiar and painfully sweet: the promise that I could curate my life, minimize my losses, and stand on my successes. And no matter how many times I rolled my eyes at the creeds outrageous certainties, I craved them just the same. I had my own Prosperity Gospel, a flowering weed grown in with all the rest.”
― Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved
― Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved
“Were we unusually dependent on one another the summer we swam and watched "Tenko" and went to dinner at Morton's?
Or were we unusually lucky?”
― The Year of Magical Thinking
Or were we unusually lucky?”
― The Year of Magical Thinking
“We are grass, murmur the scriptures. Our crowns are just flowers. We are here and then gone in a burst of wind. But I want things. I want more stories. I want life itself. But am I unfaithful in clinging so tightly to life?”
― No Cure for Being Human: And Other Truths I Need to Hear
― No Cure for Being Human: And Other Truths I Need to Hear
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