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“...I looked around at the innumerable blessings in my life and I marveled at their ability to multiply. Good things do happen. And very often the things we fear the most are not only bearable, but transformative.”

“The best people I know are comfortable with failure, willing to hang out in discomfort...They understand the value of listening and are willing to apologise and admit wrong. They are engaged in the very active thing that is fighting for the life you want, and fighting for the love you think you deserve. And at the end of the day, when asked what they bring to the table, they know the answer.”

“...with different dreams than those with which I first arrived - smaller dreams, simpler ones: an extra set of hands; ‘This morning, with him, having coffee.’ And with the dream of Walden, a sort of hope carried within dependent on neither a person nor place, ‘success unexpected in common hours.’”

“Occasionally I still feel a pain in my chest, high behind my left rib. It is duller than hunger, but just as important. It is joy and sadness and the sweet terror of a persistent loneliness. It is the fear that nothing will change and the faith that of course it has to. It is the ache of my own humanity. And it is the best, and truest, thing about me.”

“Hunger is physical, of course, but it is many other things besides: a longing to take up space, to want, to need, to fall in love, to establish boundaries, to say not good enough or not this or not now, to change directions, to start again, to fail, to forgive, to be uncomprimisingly human.”