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“…the easiest way to state reality in the face and not utterly lost your shit it’s to believe that you have control over it. If you believe you have control, then you believe that you’re at the top. And if you’re at the top, then people who aren’t like you…well they’ve got to be somewhere lower right?”

“Happiness does not exist in a place. It lives in every breath we take. You need to choose to take it in, over and over again.”

“…life is about finding joy in the space between where you came from and where you are going. I may never get to where I want to go, but I can look back on my life and say that I did not waste a second of it being bitter that I was not someplace else.”

“Scars don’t make you any less than what you are. They are simply stories, just like this scroll. You may not see mine, but I have my fair share.”

“To love someone was to lose them. Whether it was to illness or injury or the passage of time. It was a risk, to love someone. To do so with the full knowledge that they’d leave someday. Then to let go of them when they did.”

“She knew what it was to cling on, to grasp this small fragments of memory and try to live in them. Even if it meant not living at all.”

“Pain doesn’t make a person weak or strong,” she said. “Pain just-is. It’s not a purifier, it’s part of living.”

“She knew how things died.
And in her darkest moments, she feared she did not know how to live.”

“You have to want it. Above all else. Because it’s so easy to stay stuck down in the muck. Even as it tears at you, it feels safe because it’s familiar. But that safety is a lie. The muck is filled with apathy that can spread like poison.”

“…that’s what the universe is. Luck and happenstance. There’s no rate, no destiny. Sometimes it is horrible, devastating. But sometimes, it could lead to a life we couldn’t have predicted. A good life, even if it hurts.”

“…no one is infallible. Use the past to give the present, but do not let it trap you. Grow from your mistakes, don’t let them become a weakness.”