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“You are not a creature of grief. You are not a congregation of wounds. You are not the sum of your losses. Your skin is not your scars. Your life is yours, and it can be new and wondrous. Remember that.”
― In the Wild Light
― In the Wild Light
“I happen to believe that America is dying of loneliness, that we, as a people have bought into the false dream of convenience, and turned away from a deep engagement with our internal lives.”
― Tiny Beautiful Things
― Tiny Beautiful Things
“Alcoholism is a disease with many faces, and some of them look beautiful.”
― Malibu Rising
― Malibu Rising
“This is what you remember of the people you love when they're gone—the ways they knew you that no one else did—even you. In that way, their passing is a death of a piece of yourself.”
― In the Wild Light
― In the Wild Light
“You’ll never regret a decision more than the one you make out of fear. Fear tells you to make your life small. Fear tells you to think small. Fear tells you to be small-hearted. Fear seeks to preserve itself, and the bigger you let your life and perspective and heart get, the less air you give fear to survive.”
― In the Wild Light
― In the Wild Light
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