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“Being brave means you keep going, even when you know how bad things can really get”

We are carried along by everything that has come before, and far more than we can understand.

“It will all work out”

“This must be the key to happiness”… he was stunned by the ease and simplicity of it all: you could clear your own horizon. Just keep hoping for the best, stop worrying about the worst, stop fighting hard. The fighting pushed away the very thing you were trying to hold on to- most terrified of losing.

“Things aren’t falling apart, they’re going not changing…” suddenly he could hold all the possible dangers of the world within his imagination and not mind one whit. For the moment at least, the horizon ahead looked free and clear.

Fred wanted her to sign up for a marathon, but Sophie isn’t understand why everything had to be productive. Why running had to have a goal, and why anyone would ever want to run in a group and pretend it was fun. Running was painful, and that was the point.

“You try to disaster proof your life. But the thing that causes all the trouble is something you’d never even thought about”

Islands don’t exist
To swim in the ocean we sometimes have to make a splash.

I know there is a common misconception that cats are somehow less loving than dogs. This is nonsense. The love a cat can give you is sudden and warm. It’s just that a cat’s love comes completely free of any moral or ethical principles. It is love for the hell of it. A completely recreational love.

All reading in short is telepathy and all reading is time travel. It connects us to everyone and everywhere and every time and every imagined dream.

… humans are essentially telepathic creatures and our silent thoughts aren’t contained any more than light is contained in a lightbulb.

We have the unbreakable and the eternal inside us. We have the universe in our blood and bones.

The whole universe is inside us. Every element within us was made in a star. Nitrogen, calcium, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus…we are made of deep space and time and have been forged in supernova. An element is matter that cannot be broken down ..primes of the cosmos. We are made of the elements.

“The interconnectedness of everything made visible. It is all there if you know how to see it.”
One of the most interesting and sentimental of all facts, one that I have always loved… we are all stardust…

Karl had a theory that art and music and everything they ever existed were somehow inside us. A good song or a good piece of sculpture was good because it spoke to something already there within us.

The point of desperation is often the point of truth…
We sometimes need to feel trapped in order to find the way out. We don’t meet ourselves in the light and air…

The sadness leaked out. It was there on my face and in my eyes. Grief was a flood that ran through you and caused others to stand aside. Or at least wind up the conversation.

The trouble with tragedy is that it takes everything that comes after. On occasion they’d been comforted by the sharing of memories but when Karl died it became harder because the memories had nowhere to go.

Sometimes what looks like magic is simply a part of life we don’t understand yet”

“I know it’s cliche… but being on the water always does feel like what I imagine church is for some people”… “I get that… out here, you’re small and there’s no one else around but you’re not lonely. It’s like you’re connected to everyone and everything.”

Wow! Did not expect this twist!