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Ohhh so good I really don't wanna stop but I am sick and need to go to bed 😪

Let's see if we can make it through a second read...

"You have tasted of death now," said the Old Man. "Is it good?"
"It is good," said Mossy. "It is better than life."
"No," said the Old Man: "it is only more life.--your feet will make no holes in the water now."

"It don't take much to hold a man together. A man can lose a whole lot, might look to everybody else that he done lost so much that he ought to want to be dead, but he can keep on--he can even die with his head up, hell, as long as he got that one thing. That one thing is him, David, who he is inside--and, son, I don't believe no man ever got to that without somebody loved him"

From the preface:
"not even France could compensate for some of the things I knew and felt that I was losing… They did not know enough about me to be able to correct me." -xiii
"all I had, in a word, was me, and I was forced to insist on this me with all the energy I had" -xiv

I am loving this book so much!!!!

207, 232, 237***, 257

Sometimes you fall in love that way when you’re drowning in a world of pain.
It’s not a happy love.
It’s just whoever manages not hurt you all the time. You think they must be the best the world has to offer. The little window of time you aren’t in pain can seem like happiness.
130

People are immune to the happiness of others, too, not just their pain-41
In any story the two hardest things to be are a widow or an orphan…because those are two moments that the people you love the most die. It’s heart break. Heart shatter. Heart starve
All of page 49 💔♥️♥️
And his description of potlucks on p96 😂
Making anything assumes there’s a world worth making it for…a hopeful thing-122