We read not to escape life but to learn how to live it more deeply and richly, to experience the world through the eyes of the other.
“They teach you growing up that you are only one thing at a time—angry, lonely, content—but he’s never found that to be true. He is a dozen things at once. He is lost and scared and grateful, he is sorry and happy and afraid.”
― The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
― The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“Listen to me. Life can feel very long sometimes, but in the end, it goes so fast. You better live a good life.”
― The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
― The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“You are brilliant. Tell your mind to be kind to you today.”
― Alone With You in the Ether
― Alone With You in the Ether
“Nothing is all good or all bad,” she says. “Life is so much messier than that.”
― The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
― The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“Instead she thinks: I love him, and for a moment it doesn't matter whether he loves her back. It is enough to have known that the inside of her chest is more than a place for storage.”
― Alone With You in the Ether
― Alone With You in the Ether
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