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1 " I was looking forward to my visit to the library. I’ve always been a big reader and thought I might eventually volunteer as a Friend of the Library. "
― Debbie Macomber , The Inn at Rose Harbor (Rose Harbor, #1)
2 " When I first learned that Paul had been killed, the grief had been all-consuming, and I didn’t think I would be able to go on. Yet life continues to move forward, and so have I, dragging from one day into the next until I found I could breathe normally. "
3 " After all, it wan't every day that someone got adopted by a dog. "
4 " No, your problem is that you’ve grown so comfortable with feeling guilty that you’re afraid of what will happen if you don’t. Being happy frightens the very life out of you. "
5 " love. “In time you’ll know joy again.” Joy? I wanted to argue with him. It didn’t seem likely or even possible. One doesn’t heal from this kind of pain. I remembered how my family and friends had struggled to find the right words to comfort me. But there are no words … there simply are no words. "
6 " perhaps, in giving of myself, I would find the joy Paul had promised. And maybe, given time, it would be possible for me to find my way back to life. "
7 " Still, I remained curious. Abby Kincaid had flown in from Florida, which was about as far away from Cedar Cove as a person could get while remaining in the continental United States. She appeared to be happy for her brother and his bride, but she didn’t seem pleased to be in town. She’d mentioned that it’d been over ten years since she was last in Cedar Cove, but surely there were school friends she’d want to see. "
8 " Yet life continues to move forward, and so have I, dragging from one day into the next until I found I could breathe normally. "
9 " What the people around me failed to understand was that my life as I’d known it, as I’d wanted it, as I’d dreamed it, was over. The only way I could achieve fulfillment was to find myself a new one. "
10 " Addicted to the small comfort I felt when I centered myself and concentrated on creating something beautiful. "
11 " Each one of us hauled rocks on our backs, some larger than others, I realized. Some people had grown so accustomed to the extra weight that they no longer seemed aware of the baggage. "
12 " your problem is that you’ve grown so comfortable with feeling guilty that you’re afraid of what will happen if you don’t. Being happy frightens the very life out of you. "
13 " Funny how time scrubs away such agony, weathering it through the years, like water rushing over rocks gradually smooths away the sharp, painful edges. "
14 " The only way I could achieve fulfillment was to find myself a new one. "
15 " ...your problem is that you've grown so comfortable with feeling guilty that you're afraid of what will happen if you don't. "
