There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.

Michael Cunningham
Profession: Novelist
Nationality: American
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This is what you do. You make a future for yourself out of the raw material at hand.
Maybe there is nothing, ever, that can equal the recollection of having been young together.
He felt himself entering a moment so real he could only run toward it, shouting.
Who has more power than a child? She can be as cruel as she wants to be. He can't.
Our hopes may seem unrealized, but we were in all likelihood hoping for the wrong thing.
What did Shakespeare say? Or little lives are rounded with a sleep.
Have faith that you will be here, recognizable to yourself, again tomorrow.
In heaven, Lucas would be beautiful. He'd speak a language everyone understood.