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“It’s easier to hold someone or something else responsible for your pain than to take responsibility for ending your own victimhood.”

“To be free is to live in the present.”

“The worst brings out the best in us.”

“Just because the wound doesn’t hurt anymore doesn’t mean it’s healed.”

“Gratitude turns what we have into enough.”

“New identities require new habits.”

“Courage is resistance of fear. Not absense of fear.”

“We feel most comfortable when things are certain, but we feel most alive when they’re not.”

“Doing what is right is rarely the same thing as doing what is safe.”

“You can’t heal what you can’t feel.”

“You are the good this world so desperately needs.”

“We need others in order to be our best.”

“Pursuing one’s dreams should never feel like a rivalry.”

“When you are hanging at the end of your rope, does it really matter what color the hand is that reaches up to help you?”

“There’s no sadder place to be in this world as where there’s no hope.”

I like that she recaps her first book, as I haven’t read it. So sad to hear about her mom and stepdad and their drinking problems. And bring hand picked by Walt Disney himself for Mary Poppins. What an honor! And even better working side by side with your husband on such a huge, life changing project as he designed the costumes.

“Much of life is timing and circumstance.”

“You could only toss a coin so many times before tails finally came up.”

“The dead are never far from us. They’re in our hearts and our minds. And in the end, all that separates us from them is a single breath. One final puff of air.”

I started this book today. It was way too slow for my liking, and the main character is more perverted and twisted than I care to continue to read about. Not my cup of tea.