#memoir

Into every sunny life a little rain must fall. ↗

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

#life

That night I slept like a baby. When I woke the next morning I knew I was going to smoke heroin again. Everything that day was enjoyable: sitting on the bus, working all day – it all felt good. It was the best day of my life. ↗

— Christine Lewry

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There's nothing gay about living life straight ↗

— Paul B. Tripp

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But you have to remember...that you can't run from unhappiness. You just take it with you. ↗

— Karen Wheeler

#life

The interior life expands and fills; it approaches the edge of skin; it thickens with its own vivid story; it even begins to hear rumors, from beyond the horizon skin’s rim, of nations and wars. You wake one day and discover your grandmother; you wake another day and notice, like any curious naturalist, the boys. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#boys #connection #memoir #sexuality #life

If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was. ↗

— Arthur Golden

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Your heart is the size of your fist; keep loving, keep fighting. ↗

— Ariel Gore

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Murphy's law inverted: What can go right, will go right. ↗

— Saloma Miller Furlong

#coming-of-age #escape-from-the-amish #inspirational #memoir #age

He loves me, he loves me not. How many flowers must I kill before he loves me?” ~He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not ↗

— Kimberly Kinrade

#poetry #love

Free love, man, Free Love! Which, by the way, was the single greatest concept a young man has ever heard. About three years late, women got wise an my frustration returned to normal levels. ↗

— Steve Martin

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