What if life could be this way? Only the happy parts, none of the terrible, not even the mildly unpleasant. What if we could just cut out the bad and keep the good? This is what I want to do with Violet - give her only the good, keep away the bad, so that good is all we ever have around us. Jennifer Niven
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This quote is essentially about the ideal life. Life is full of experiences, and many of those experiences are unpleasant. But what if we could cut out the bad ones? What if there were no unpleasant anything in our lives, only the good things? This is what this quote is taking about. We can try to avoid having any bad experiences, but it's impossible to eliminate them completely.

"[The Lord] doesn’t like us”, says William Shakespeare. “He has given us all the bad experiences we have had.”

Source: All The Bright Places

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