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Your path will change. Your destiny never will."" But what if I'm on the wrong path?"" There is no wrong path. Not when it comes to destiny. There are only detours, you see.Lauren Miller
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So you believe in fate, ” I say. Dr. Mann pauses thoughtfully before answering. “I believe each of us was uniquely created for a specific purpose designed by the Creator, and that, because of that, there are certain things in our lives that we are destined by Him to do. The rest, I think, is soft clay: left entirely to the defining influences of choice, chance, and circumstance. And luck! Don’t forget luck.Lauren Miller
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This probably isn’t something you’re supposed to say at a moment like this, but I think the moon is seriously overrated.” A moment like what? I bite my cheeks, taming the grin that threatens to take over my face.“ And the stars?” I ask, once the smile is under control.“ Wildly underrated, ” he declares with a grin. He looks up again. “The sky is a storybook, ” he says then. “Every constellation’s like its own fairy tale. .Lauren Miller
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The fear, though, is unassailable. The dark balls of dread pinball through my brain. This is what anxiety does to a brain, I know that. A barrage of intrusive, unwanted, and distressing thoughts that the person thinking them can't turn them off no matter how hard they try...Lauren Miller
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Over and over again, the same message, 'you are not enough'. You hear it enough times and it weaves itself into you, and it's not an idea any more it's who you are, 'not enough.' But then a boy comes along and changes the message. 'You are enough, ' he says, 'enough for me.' And because he is all you have, being enough for him is enough for you, too, even though you know deep down that 'good enough' really just means 'pretty enough, ' and if he really knew you, all of you, he'd bail, too.Lauren Miller