“...that makes me feel like she‘s just out of reach, not gone forever, and that I‘m just not trying hard enough to get to her.”

1. LEO
2. MENDING A RELATIONSHIP THAT I HAD THOUGHT WAS BEYOND REPAIR.
3. LIFE OF PI
4. WE WILL BE BUYING DINNER FOR A VETERAN. IF WE DO NOT SEE A VETERAN AT THE RESTAURANT, WE WILL PURCHASE DINNER FOR ANOTHER FAMILY. TREATING OUR FELLOW COUNTRYMEN & VISITORS WELL IS SOMETHING WE SHOULD BE DOING MORE OFTEN- NO MATTER OUR DIFFERENT OPINIONS. OUR VETERANS PUT THEIR LIVES ON THE LINE FOR US. I WILL SHOW SHOW GRATITUDE. BE KIND.
#FRIYAYINTRO

Stephen King! All day.
Dan Brown.
Paula Hawkins.
Neil Gamain.
Ruth Ware.
I haven‘t read either. Recommendations?
Gillian Flynn.
ROWLING. WITHOUT A DOUBT.

#dontmakemechoose

🎁🎁🎁
📚NEW
📖 STAND ALONES
☕️ TEA
🕯 CANDLES
🌈 BRIGHTS AND NEUTRALS
🧦 SOCKS AND BLANKETS. IT IS COLD HERE.
🖤 FUNKOS ALL DAY!
#giftideasthisorthat

1. There is no food which I do not like.
2. Mystery.
3. Facebook
4. One amazing daughter who makes my life worth living. Two dogs - without them my house wouldn‘t be a home. One husband- he counts as a baby, right?
5. I love reading everyone‘s responses. I can‘t believe how many people do not like cranberry sauce!
#friyayintro #friyay

“The last line of my suicide note says that my nightmare is over. And, by now, it is. Yours, however, is just beginning.”

Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.

If only she could turn the clock back. If she could have her baby back, she didn‘t think she would ever be depressed again. She would cherish every minute with her daughter. She would never complain about anything, ever again.

Oftentimes it‘s hard to get out of bed and when I do, the very first thought on my mind is Mia. I wake up sobbing in the middle of the night, night after endless night, hurrying downstairs so I don‘t wake James. I‘m stricken with grief at all waking hours;

“But I didn‘t want to sleep, because I knew that when I woke up I would be all alone again.”

“The grief comes at me in many ways.
I spend my mornings with sadness, my evenings with melancholy. In private, I cry.”

Bad stuff happens.Sometimes it makes no sense @ all.Sometimes its unfair.Sometimes it just plain sucks.Bad stuff happens sometimes.Always remember that,but remember that u have to move on somehow.You just pick your head up & stare @ something beautiful like the sky,or the ocean,& u move the hell on.

I was cleaning out the pantry and I found Grandma's vintage cookbooks. I was rifling through those while the canine thought he would take a nap behind some modern editions.

"You're just as sane as I am."

"I cried a couple of times, but that's not saying much: I'm rather disposed to weep."

"Oh, what the mind allows us to believe, even contrary to what we've seen with our own eyes."

"I had forgotten, I suppose, that there were bright memories amongst the dark."

This book has me enchanted and I am only on page 7. I have a feeling I will be up all night reading this one!

"BUILD A BEAUTIFUL CATHEDRAL FOR ME"

This has been on my table for months. Today I finally picked it up. I am reminded of SOME other book, but I don't know what.

I don't know why I insist on terrifying myself, but I do it time and time again.

"You could try as hard as you could to imagine someone else‘s tragedy—drowning in icy waters, living in a city split by a wall—but nothing truly hurts until it happens to you. Most of all, to your child."

"I wanted to thank you," I said. She wrinkled her nose and squinted like I said something funny. "Thank me for what?" she said. "You give me strength I didn't know I had," I said. "You make me better."

"I lay on the bed and lost myself in the stories. I liked that. Books were safer than other people anyway."

Oh my stars! Gaiman summed up my childhood in those three sentences!

I have heard mixed reviews on this one, I'm only at chapter three but so far so good!

"She was who she was: a woman who'd survived a war of the heart and had the wrinkles to prove it."

"You only get one life. It's actually your duty to live it as fully as possible."

"Rule number one: Always stick around for one more drink. That's when things happen. That's when you find out everything you want to know." Perfectly paired with GEORGIA PEACH ice cream!

"The world was full of broken people, and all the hospitals and institutions and jails could never mend their fractured hearts, wounded minds, and trampled spirits."

"Peace of mind comes with taking people as they are and emphasizing the positive."
Tuesday's check list: Sunshine. A good book. Haircut for the dog.

"...when you mess with one part of a person‘s life, you‘re not messing with just that part. Unfortunately, you can‘t be that precise and selective. When you mess with one part of a person‘s life, you‘re messing with their entire life. Everything. . . affects everything"

"Sometimes that's all you can do when it happens-hold on just long enough for the world to stop shaking."

"Because maybe I don't want to leave the planet invisible. Maybe I need at least one person to remember something about me."

"And that's just it, isn't it? That's how we manage to survive the loss. Because love, it never dies, it never goes away, it never fades, so long as you hang on to it."

""We aren't the things we collect, acquire, read. We are, for as long as we are here, only love. The things we loved. The people we loved. And these, I think these really do live on."
What a lovely afternoon to spend outside reading with my little bibliophile and the canine. My loves. My life.

Hollowness: that I understand. I'm starting to believe that there isn't anything you can do to fix it. That's what I've taken from the therapy sessions: the holes in your life are permanent. You have to grow around them, like tree roots around concrete; you mold yourself through the gaps.

"LEARN FROM IT AND THEN LET IT GO. DWELLING NEVER HELPED ANYONE."

"...None of us will ever leave. It's the end, you see-the end of everything..."

I haven't read this since high school. I am completely engrossed, AGAIN!

"Sometimes life turns out hard, Isabel. Sometimes it just bites right through you. And sometimes, just when you think it's done its worst, it comes back and takes another chunk."

"Actually, I feel like something awful's going to happen anyway. I feel that all the time. Even when I'm happy."

"And then all the bad stuff happened.And I kind of slid off a cliff.And here I am.Stuck in my own stupid brain."

The only cliffhanger in my life is "Will I ever get rid of this shit?", and believe me,
it gets pretty monotonous.

"The world is big and scary and unforgiving. But we can survive out here."

I could quote this book all day; there are so many brilliant sentences! Well done!