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“She hears the words childhood leukemia, or maybe he says lymphoma, and what's the difference anyway?....She is furious with herself for her own stupidity. Opening herself up like this, voluntarily, to a lifetime of worry and anguish. It was madness. Sheer lunacy. A spectacularly foolish and baseless faith, against enormous odds, that a world you do not control will not take from you the one thing you cannot bear to lose. Faith that the world will not destroy you. I don't have the heart for this. She actually says this under her breath. I don't have the heart for this. At that moment, she cannot think of a more reckless, irrational thing than choosing to become a parent.”
― And the Mountains Echoed
― And the Mountains Echoed
“At that moment, she cannot think of a more reckless, irrational thing than choosing to become a parent.”
― And the Mountains Echoed
― And the Mountains Echoed
“People learned to live with the most unimaginable things.”
― And the Mountains Echoed
― And the Mountains Echoed
“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― The Fellowship of the Ring
― The Fellowship of the Ring
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