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KellyK11
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This is the challenge of life, isn’t it? Moving forward without annihilating what has gone before. Knowing what to clasp onto and what to release without destroying yourself. Trying not to be the meteor and the dinosaur at once.
“If you were his friend, I’m sorry. Because the whole world lost an artist, but you lost your human. And I’m sorry you had to share that with the rest of us. You should be allowed to have your grief in peace.”
― My Friends
― My Friends
“That’s why rich adults hate the sort of thing that Louisa paints on the walls of buildings, not because they love walls, but because they hate the fact that there are beautiful things that are free.”
― My Friends
― My Friends
“What I hate most isn’t that people die. What I hate most is that they’re dead. That I’m alive, without them.”
― My Friends
― My Friends
“The basic function of a parent is just to exist. You have to be there, like ballast in a boat, because otherwise your child capsizes.”
― My Friends
― My Friends
“That's an extra cruelty that cancer brings, Ted thought, when you're waiting for everything to go back to normal again. Until one day you realize that the illness has become the new normal.”
― My Friends
― My Friends
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