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Right before I gave birth, someone said to me, “the love of your life is inbound,” and they couldn’t have been more correct.
“Everyone is from someplace. We all have stories, our lives unfolding along crooked lines, colliding in unexpected ways.”
― Before the Fall
― Before the Fall
“Someone had told her once that mothers existed to blunt the existential loneliness of being a person. If that was true then her biggest maternal responsibility was simply companionship. You bring a child into this fractious, chaotic world out of the heat of your womb, and then spend the next ten years walking beside them while they figure out how to be a person.”
― Before the Fall
― Before the Fall
“Choosing to love—despite all the ways that people let you down, and disappear, and break your heart. Knowing everything we know about how hard life is and choosing to love, anyway.. That’s not weakness, that’s courage.”
― Things You Save in a Fire
― Things You Save in a Fire
“Life is a series of decisions and reactions. It is the things you do and the things that are done to you.
And then it's over.”
― Before the Fall
And then it's over.”
― Before the Fall
“Not knowing why is, itself, a profound type of suffering.”
― Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle
― Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle
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