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The faster you accept everyone’s a mess, the quicker you can just get on with it

The entirety of ‘how to not ruin your own life’

“I think I am no longer me because I’m no longer needed the way I used to be. It’s a sharp grief that’s embarrassing to describe: like looking up at a race track and being left behind I know losing and I know triumph but I have felt a gap in my life quite like it. It’s like the opposite of love which is absence.”

‘Turns out, to know what might be good for us, we must first be prepared for it to be bad’

‘We take, we push away, we try to pour back: family love is complicated like that. In the movies, home is swimming pools, and traditions, and always being together. Sometimes it’s that. But sometimes it’s not.’