Outstanding Quotes

Living 4000 miles from my parents: 🎉🥳🎊😀

Maybe all these things are beautiful and worth having. Listen to the music and you’ll see what I mean. It surged, it was music with wings. Bird Who Soars Music and what it said was nothing bad would ever happen again.

They say there is good in everyone. If you just give them a chance. And a good boot in the arse.

I think I’m weary of my terrifying heart.

When you’re a Yank, Mary, only other Yanks are friends.

He’d always wanted better words for what it felt like to live, and to suffer, and to love it all so recklessly as to hate how it couldn’t love you back the same.

It is a sad thing to let go of. That everything leaves. But life has too many seasons to get caught up about one of them. And other seasons return…

The years come no matter what you do to them.

Stories do more than comfort. They take you away and bring you back better made.

I’d taken an idea about second wind for myself. That if you could last through what seemed hardest, you got more, and that there lived somewhere in the body the ability to keep going even though it felt like you no longer could, some reserve of strength and power, to endure, that took its share but not all of you; that you could save some part of you, hidden away in a true place, even from yourself, for when you needed it most— to believe in that felt powerful enough to make it true.

I’d started to think of books as beings. As things unto themselves, whether they were written by people countless years ago, or written just recently by strange old white men, the books themselves felt to me as if they were their own lives, separate from the bodies and minds that created them.

A heart is a wonderful thing. It’s big and has the capacity to love many people and many cats… the heart is a miracle and it’s big enough for all it needs to be big enough for. It allows you to miss those you’ve lost and still love those who are with you.

There aren’t many people who, after taking a long hard look at their life, can simply conclude that all is well and carry on as they were.