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“Tricky day?”
“Yup. And the really annoying thing is I didn’t think it was going to be.”
“Those are the worst.”

No feeling is final. The shitty times don’t last for ever. Even if they feel like it.

This new generation looks only to the future, with little regard for the past and what it could teach them. What we could teach them.

Too often, it’s what we choose to see while ignoring all the inconvenient bits, the nagging details that distort our view. We crave clarity, and so we lie to ourselves.

It’s what we’ve all been trained to do, cultivating assets the way you grow a garden, nurturing and watering them until it’s time for the harvest.

When you live your whole life in one town, you know all the places where tragedy occurred, because bad memories are as permanent as gravestones.

Bullets are like words, once they’ve left the barrel you can’t take them back.

Reading is magic. Think of the imagination and sense of adventure that readers employ every time they crack open a book. There are few places filled with more magic than libraries. No doubt about it.

“People only see what they expect.”

“A lot of people will say relationships are fifty-fifty, but I think it’s a load of rubbish. We all have seasons and periods where we require more from our partner.”

“Often, we measure ourselves against what we have envisioned as our future.”

“I have a hard time being present,” I admit. “I’m usually either dwelling on the past or worrying about the future.”

“Pull on your thread and unravel your sweater, then wind up a new ball of yarn and begin again.”

Every man has a basement. It’s where we keep the skeletons.

This is a book filled with heartache and passion.