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“Risks go this way sometimes—every bit as awful as we fear”

“Mercy isn’t a onetime event with an alcoholic.”

“We begin to say goodbye as soon as
we say hello.”

“because to cry means to live.”

“The past can’t change. But memory can, which is almost the same thing.”

“There's something permanent about where you start."

"You can't control anyone else's choices, but you start with what you're given and then you make your own”

so good so far