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Grief was the exact opposite. It was full and heavy and drowning because it wasn’t the absence of everything you lost—it was the culmination of it all, your love, your happiness, your bittersweets, wound tight like a knotted ball of yarn.
Such a big emotion journey!
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“No, I was made to protect you, and you were made in a way that it would always be worth the effort.”
― Law Man
― Law Man
“This is a moment I will remember for the entire rest of my life. No matter what happens after this, I will file tonight under Happiness.”
― Scandalized
― Scandalized
“Something else you’ll learn, I pray, my beauty, is the good, the bad, the ugly, a mother is never sorry. Their baby needs them, there’s no other place they would be.”
― Rough Ride
― Rough Ride
“I liked that I could just be a man with you,” he says. “That I didn’t have to live up to some expectation and that you weren’t nervous with me. I liked that you were real. I never get real, ever.” He stares at me for several tense seconds. “But I’m sorry I lied to you.”
― Scandalized
― Scandalized
“I mean, there are some things in life you can’t change,” she said. “And there are some situations where we need to learn to let go and just deal with the disappointments as best we can. But in other situations—like a job, for instance—we can either choose to keep being disappointed, we can choose to see the good in what we have, or we can choose to leave it behind and find something better.” Her eyes met his, unwavering. “Something that will lift you up instead of drag you down. Something that brings you lasting joy.”
― Christmas Baggage
― Christmas Baggage
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