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"Everybody warns you about bad influences, but it’s these things already inside you that are going to take you down. The restlessness in your gut....The hopeless wishes that won’t quit stalking you: some perfect words you think you could say to somebody to make them see you, and love you, and stay. Or could say to your mirror, same reason."

"it hit me pretty hard, how there's no kind of sad in this world that will stop it from turning. people will keep on wanting what they want, and you're on your own." 3

"I hadn't know there was something in me to break, but there it was and break it did."

mid year check in: it’s been a sad year for reading books (for me)

abby jimemez ILYSM <3

“I know you think of me as your mother only, but please remember, inside I am also just a girl.” ok I’m sobbing

“but I think of life rather like a long road we walk in one direc-tion. By and large a lonesome walk out in the wildness of hills and wind. Mountains. Snow. And sometimes there is someone to come along and walk with you for a stretch” so sweet

"There are scars on my heart, just as thick, as disfiguring as those on my face. I know they’re there. I hope some undamaged tissue remains, a patch through which love can come in and flow out. I hope."

“If we acknowledged that everything we consume is the gift of Mother Earth, we would take better care of what we are given.”

“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same”

“He's stunned by his own certainty that there would always be more of her words, that he could treat them so carelessly. As though there were an inexhaustible supply. He's come so close to being left with nothing; with only his own thoughts to read back.”

“for Cian, Sílbhe and her grandchildren are like a slug of whiskey making his insides burn with the sharp pleasure of human contact. Of being invited in from the cold.”

so lovely