"Choices are sacrifices, and inevitably that means giving up something that you want for something that you want more."

"Our lives are determined by dumb luck, the actions we take, and the courage we summon at our moments of truth."

"A partner doesn’t leave you on the doorstep. He follows you there, even if it’s 4 in the morning."

"An idiotic Greek philosopher once said, ‘nothing endures but change.’ But any WITSEC inspector on the job longer than a week will tell you: it’s resistance to change that truly endures. We cling to the life-raft of who we are, even as the pounding sounds of waterfalls grow louder in our ears."

"Every time you make a choice, you take a risk."

"What is unleashed in the soul when we love outside ourselves is sharp, unexpected & beyond words. Love turns smart people stupid & conjures courage from thin air. That we can love so wildly, so recklessly, yet feel it even in the tame ways of everyday is something of a miracle."

"Everything’s mythical when you’re seven-years-old: father, mother, Santa, God, the alleged protective powers of a gold medallion. It’s not that certain things seem larger than life, it’s just…life seems larger. But the world keeps spinning, and in a thousand tiny surrenders or sometimes in one foul swoop, what you had seen as truly mythical you learn is merely myth. The good news, if you can call it that, is that ultimately you find other myths to believe in and other men as well. You see the myth for what it is, close-up and in its bones, smaller and greater, and more like you than you care to admit. It nevertheless leaves you, always, every single time, sitting foolish on the doorstep awaiting its return"

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“everyone always say, life isn’t fair.. bad guys get away with the goods and the good die young.. but we carry on anyway because what other choice do we have..

in the face of unfair, we carry on.. holding our breath and bracing ourselves.. and only sometimes forgetting that there is always another storm right around the corner.. they’ll hit you, the storms, knock you off your horse and send you overboard.. desperate for anything to hold on to.. to reel you up towards some semblance of peace..

but life I find is often more about the storms than the peace they seek to overwhelm.. they lurk, ready, any minute now, to shake things up and take your breath away..”

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"In the face of unfair, we carry on, holding our breath and bracing ourselves and only sometimes forgetting that there’s always another storm right around the corner…They’ll hit you, the storms, knock you off your horns and send you overboard, desperate for anything to hold on to, to reel you up towards some semblance of peace. But life, I find, is often more about the storms than the peace they seek to overwhelm. They lurk, ready, any minute now, to shake things up and take your breath away."