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1 " Leona A: But I’m thinking about doing something crazy. Darryl K: Aren’t those the only things that can truly change our lives? Leona A: I suppose so. But we don’t know if the change will be good or bad, do we? Darryl K: And that mystery right there is the beauty of life. "
― Loretta Nyhan , All the Good Parts
2 " What do you think people should say to someone who’s just lost a loved one? I don’t think there are many options.” Petra thought for a moment. “If you knew the person who died, I think you should share a memory, something you don’t think they’d know about. The wilder the better.” “And if you didn’t know the person who died?” “Then you should ask for a good memory that best describes him or her. Let the grieving person have a moment with that person again. "
― Loretta Nyhan , Digging In
3 " I'm sorry.''For what?''For all of it.''No need to be. I'm living a life, you know? If people went around apologizing for every bad thing that happened to everyone, we'd be bored out of our fucking skulls. "
4 " Everything can be learned, you know? Some people learn sooner, others later. Not a big deal if the outcome is the same. "
5 " When you give something meaning, it’s worth remembering. We filter out the stuff that doesn’t touch our heart. "
6 " Pick a few things you don’t want to let slide, and let the rest sort itself out,” he said gently after one particularly rough day. “When someone leaves this world, everything else gets jostled because of the empty space. You’re gonna land in the wrong spot for a while. Sooner or later, you’ll find where you fit again. "
7 " At his service, everyone said he was still with me, but the truth was that not only was he gone, parts of me went with him. I missed them, too, and like Jesse, they weren’t coming back. "
8 " Carly took a breath, gearing up. “You’ve never made a decision in your life. Think about it. Things happen to you and you react. You let people steer you one way, and then another, and then another, like you’re a shopping cart with a wonky wheel. Don’t fool yourself, Lee, that’s not making a decision.” “That "
9 " He was downing kombucha like a Brooklyn hipster on a bender and pacing the hallways endlessly. "
10 " That’s the beauty of a garden,” she said. “Some stuff works, some stuff doesn’t, and some stuff you think isn’t working ends up producing the following year. Keeps you living in a constant state of suspense, so whatever comes, you’re grateful for it. "
11 " Things always get hard. If you’re with the right person, you join hands and climb the mountain together. If you aren’t, well, the hard thing gets even harder and then everything’s so brittle it just cracks. "
― Loretta Nyhan , The Other Family
12 " The only thing they had in common was the inability to organize. "
13 " There are lots of ideas living in my brain, and they have idea babies all the time, and it’s too crowded for me to clear them out. "
14 " Not only is there not an I in ‘teamwork,’ there isn’t a U either. "
15 " The situation is complicated.” “People say that when they know they have to make a choice between hurting themselves or someone else. Very few things are really complicated. You don’t want to act selfishly, I understand. What you need to know, though, is that the person who would call you selfish doesn’t have to live your life. And life is long, sometimes motherfucking long—excuse my French—and their judgment won’t carry you to the end, only your choices will. "
16 " Love is stronger than blood. Don’t you ever doubt that. "
17 " Odd that the breast cancer movement chose pink as its representative color, the shade of little girls’ bedrooms and cotton candy daydreams. I would have chosen steel gray or a tranquil blue, something exuding quiet strength and serenity. "
18 " Your generation thinks being broken is such a tragedy because you’re used to throwing things away. My people are more frugal. We fix things. Sometimes they end up not quite good as new, but sometimes they’re better. "
19 " Forever. Till death do us part. The thing is, no one tells you what to do when the parting happens. And they forget to explain that when death is sudden, the parting is actually a ragged tear, not a clean separation. It leaves all the ends unfinished, and they just unravel and unravel and . . . "
20 " Everybody liked Frank, because Frank had that one quality no one could resist—he knew who he was and still liked himself. "
