June 2012
208 posts
“Love is what makes you smile when you’re tired.”
— Paulo Coelho
“When someone you love dies, and you’re not expecting it, you don’t lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time — the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in her closet and drawers. Gradually, you accumulate the parts of her that are gone. Just when the day comes — when there’s a particular missing part that overwhelms you with the feeling that she’s gone, forever — there comes another day, and another specifically missing part.”
—A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving
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“I have noticed that if you look carefully at people’s eyes the first five seconds they look at you, the truth of their feelings will shine through for just an instant before it flickers away.”
—Sue Monk Kidd
“She said she usually cried at least once each day - not because she was sad, but because the world was so beautiful & life was so short.”
—The Story People
