We stayed all day long. We closed our eyes and paryed, which we had not doen together in a long time. The nurse came in and out of the room. Everything felt awful and I wondered why the whole world didn't seem to notice how bad things really were. I thought of how I'd gotten used to awful, how after my dad died the planets kept on spinning and I got up and ate breakfast every morning and kept going to school. Something happens and it's terrible and you think you can't live another day, but then your mother gets used to it and you get used to it and you both keep on living, and you're not sure if that getting-used-to-things is good or the way life should be. Margaret McMullan
He is beauty, inside and out. He is the silver lining in a world of darkness. He is my light.
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Marie Lu
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
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Robert Louis Stevenson
A thirst for water may be an oasis in your day.
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Anthony T.Hincks
Your smile is what gets me through the day and my dreams of you are what gets me through the night.
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Anthony T. Hincks
It never failed to amaze me how the most ordinary day could be catapulted into the extraordinary in the blink of an eye.
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Jodi Picoult
More Quotes By Margaret McMullan
Don't be scared, " Willa Mae said. I looked at her. "Aren't you scared?" Willa Mae looked at me and said, "Shoot. Only thing I'm afraid of is that I'm going to do something I'll regret."" Being scared is just one more thing to turn...
Why did you marry Dad, Mom?" My mother sniffled through her nose, looked at me, then smiled. "I wanted something more and he was it. We both had big dreams." "That must have taken a lot of courage, " I said. "To marry Dad. He...
We stayed all day long. We closed our eyes and paryed, which we had not doen together in a long time. The nurse came in and out of the room. Everything felt awful and I wondered why the whole world didn't seem to notice how...
Sit on the truth too long and you mash the life right out of it.
Seems like nothing's getting safer or better, " I said. "Seems like everything's getting worse." "Maybe that's what's gotta happen, " Willa Mae said. "Maybe everything's gotta break lose and fall apart before we can put it back together again right.
