“According to Alessandra Strong, surviving is what’s hard, because you never get to take a break from it. You never get to stop. No matter how tired you are, how confused. You’ve just got to keep living... and you’ve got to have faith that, eventually, you’ll be glad you did.”
― The Penumbra Podcast
― The Penumbra Podcast
“Yeah, you know… the fact of the matter is, your life is a constant stream of changes, I mean, you start one day accepting a job offer, and you end, saving the world. And you’re going to walk through that door, and your life will never be the same, and I wish I could tell you that everyday from now on will be amazing, and the happiest day of your life, but that’s not the way that life works, but every day will be made better because she’s in it with you. You aren’t going to be alone ever again, even if you’re ever separated, you’ll still never be alone.”
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“And when it gets that bad you just have to look at the people who rely on you, who think you’re worth something, and you have to believe that they can’t all be wrong. It sounds crazy, but people believe in all kinds of crazy things. Promises and politicians, love and... lives worth living”
― The Penumbra Podcast
― The Penumbra Podcast
“When someone leaves your life, those exits… are… not made equal. Some are beautiful, and poetic, and satisfying. Others are… abrupt and unfair, but most are just unremarkable, unintentional, clumsy. Where Lup went, she didn’t intend to end up there and she certainly didn't intend to spend as much time away as she did.”
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“You are so young, all still lies ahead of you, and I should like to ask you, as best I can, dear Sir, to be patient towards all that is unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms, like books written in a foreign tongue. Do not now strive to uncover answers: they cannot be given you because you have not been able to live them. And what matters is to live everything. Live the questions for now. Perhaps then you will gradually, without noticing it, live your way into the answer, one distant day in the future.”
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