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“Love in your novels, I think, acts as a form of hope. Why hope? Do you believe in this?”
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“Isn’t love a form of hope?” I said.
“No. Love is crushing. Love is something you let yourself feel at your own peril, despite your better sense.”
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“True. It’s all those things… but where would we be if we didn’t feel it? I think it’s the only form of hope we have..”

“It is an unpleasant feeling, having this anger at someone who is dying.”

“Nothing bad ever came of staying the fuck home.”

Amen, Tressa Fay 🖤

she understands that young people are consumed by themselves, and her role is to comfort and reassure and be caring towards them when their parents are cross with them

Winsome likes the fact that Rachel is curious enough to know who her grandmother was before she was a mother, when she was a person in her own right…

Except she never has been
First she was a daughter then a wife and a mother and also a grandmother

“Most of the trouble in this world boils down to one person not recognizing the worth of another.”

“How boring would life be if we didn’t have anything left to discover about our ourselves.”

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

“Healing is figuring out how to coexist with the pain that will always live inside of you, without pretending it isn’t there or allowing it to hijack your day. It is learning to confront ghosts and to carry what lingers. It is learning to embrace the people I love now instead of protecting against a future in which I am gutted by their loss.”

“To be well now is to accept whatever body and mind I currently have.”