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he’s a “failure to launch” specimen, maybe even still at home with his parents.
“To know which path to take, it helps to take a few wrong ones.”
― The Comfort Book
― The Comfort Book
“The present is known. The future is unknown. The present is solid. The future is abstract. Ruining the present by worrying about the future is like burning your most treasured possession simply because you might one day lose other possessions that you don't own yet.”
― The Comfort Book
― The Comfort Book
“The hardest dream of all is the dream of not being tormented by our unlived dreams. To cope with and accept unfulfillment as a natural human condition. To be complete in our incompleteness. To be free from the shackles of memory, and ambition, to be free from comparison to other people and other hypothetical selves, and to meet the moment without any other agenda, to exist as freely as time itself.”
― The Comfort Book
― The Comfort Book
“I used to worry about fitting in until I realized the reason I didn't fit in was because I didn't want to.”
― The Comfort Book
― The Comfort Book
“Jan and I knew, when we left Ethan with his grandparents, as we did through the week when we both went to work, that he wasn’t going to be exposed to any hazards. No frayed light cords, no poisonous chemicals left where he could get his hands on them, no upturned carpet edges he could run and trip on. And their rates just happened to be more reasonable than any nursery schools in the area.”
― Never Look Away
― Never Look Away
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