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“Resilient people use all their emotions, not only positive ones. They derive insights from their sadness and anger to make sense of their experiences and to propel change. Instead of staying positive through thick and thin, they are pragmatic about optimism itself, using pessimistic thoughtfully and strategically to influence future outcomes.”

“Each memory stunned her with its blinding luminosity. Each brought with it a sense of unassailable loss, a great burden hurdling towards her, and she wished she could duck, lower herself so that it would bypass her, so that she would save herself. Love was a kind of grief.”

About halfway done! Three Love Problems, which I just finished, is my favorite section so far.

“But without such ignorance, how could we live? If you knew what was going to happen next—if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions—you’d be doomed. You’d be as ruined as God. You’d be a stone. You’d never drink or laugh or get out of bed in the morning. You’d never love anyone, ever again. You’d never dare to.”

“But some people can’t tell where it hurts. They can’t calm down. They can’t ever stop howling.”

“It hasn’t escaped me that the object that keeps me alive is the same one that will kill me. In this way it’s like love, or a certain kind of it.”

Time to finally read some Charles Dickens. Can't believe it's taken me this long.

I am not reading this by choice. Sigh.