Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who's Been There: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s Been There

This is how you get unstuck, Stuck. You reach.

We are obligated to the people we care about and who we allow to care about us, whether we say we love them or not.

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You get to define the terms of your life.

The people who squawk the loudest about such things have almost never had to get over anything.

And it’s a kind of love that will kill you if you let it.

The healing power of even the most microscopic exchange with someone who knows in a flash precisely what you’re talking about because she experienced that thing too cannot be overestimated.

We are all entitled to our opinions and religious beliefs, but we are not entitled to make shit up and then use the shit we made up to oppress other people.

She had to grab like a drowning girl for every good thing that came her way and she had to swim like fuck away from every bad thing. She had to count the years and let them roll by, to grow up and then run as far as she could in the direction of her best and happiest dreams across the bridge that was built by her own desire to heal.