KellyAnne Tang
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KellyAnne Tang
From Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton:
“28 Lessons Learned in 28 Years”
Life is a difficult, hard, sad, unreasonable, irrational thing. So little of it makes sense. So much of it is unfair. And a lot of it simply boils down to the unsatisfying formula of good and bad luck.
Life is a wonderful, mesmerizing, magical, fun, silly thing. And
... See more“No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself. When you let go of the frantic search for validation, you find yourself exactly where you are meant to be, with the tools you need to go forward. It is from this place of quiet assurance that the most beautiful things emerge.” - Virginia Woolf, from A Room of One’s Own
From Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton:
p. 209
“We walked home in the beautiful light and I felt grateful for Florence’s life and everything she had taught me. I was grateful for the sun on Kew Bridge as I placed each foot in front of the other. I was grateful for understanding in that moment that life can really be as simple as just bre
... See more“To love someone long-term is to attend a thousand funerals of the people they used to be. The people they’re too exhausted to be any longer. The people they don’t recognize inside themselves anymore. The people they grew out of, the people they never ended up growing into.
We so badly want the people we love to get their spark back when it burns o
... See moreFrom Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton:
p. 167
“Is this really all life is”
“Is what all life is?” Margaret asked soothingly, putting her arm around her.
“Fucking…Tottenham Court Road and ordering shit off Amazon,” she replied.
For years, those words were stuck on the underside of my brain like a Post-it I couldn’t shake off. They hung the
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p. 265
“On the afternoon of her birthday, she went to another tattoo parlor to amend her error from a decade ago. She had the stars filled in with dark ink; she painted it black. She put an “F” next to one of them for Florence and “D” for me. A reminder that no matter what we lose, no matter how unc
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“My Uncle…taught me something very important. He said that when things are going really well we should be sure to notice it. He was talking about very simple occasions, not great victories. Maybe drinking lemonade under a shade tree, or smelling the aroma of a bakery, or fishing, or listening to music coming from a concert hall while standing in th
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