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41 " I didn't emerge from the cocoon of my past to become an uninhibited, emotionally healthy butterfly. Nothing is ever that easy. Sometimes grief is a comfort we grant ourselves because it's less terrifying than trying for joy. Nobody wants to admit it. We'd all declare we want to be happy, if we could. So why, then, is pain the one thing we most often hold on to? Why are slights and griefs the memories on which we choose to dwell? Is it because joy doesn't last but grief does? "
― Megan Hart , Dirty (Dan and Elle, #1)
42 " I have suffered the touch of some and embraced it from others. "
43 " No corrimos de la mano por prados llenos de flores, ni empezó a sonar una suave música de fondo cuando nos besábamos. A mi madre no le cayó ninguna casa encima. Yo no me liberé de todo de golpe, no me convertí en un ejemplo radiante que demostraba que sólo hacía falta que llegara un caballero de brillante armadura con un martillo para romper la torre de cristal. La vida no funciona así. Pero lo intentamos, seguimos intentando día a día que esto funcione, ser honestos el uno con el otro, sernos fieles, escuchar. Mirar hacia delante, hacia lo que nos espera, en vez de mirar hacia atrás, hacia lo que hemos dejado atrás. "
44 " Sometimes grief is a comfort we grant ourselves because it’s less terrifying than trying for joy. Nobody wants to admit it. We’d all declare we want to be happy, if we could. So why, then, is pain the one thing we most often hold on to? Why are slights and griefs the memories on which we choose to dwell? Is it because joy doesn’t last but grief does? "
45 " I’m still the girl who sat in the front of the class, ready to answer all the teacher’s questions. I just lost most of the answers somewhere along the way. Dan didn’t make "