Sevinc Taghiyeva
@sevinctaghiyeva
18 okur puanı
Eylül 2025 tarihinde katıldı
In England there was a saying used by football fans: It’s the hope that kills you. A loss is always more bitter if you let yourself dream of victory first. Low expectations, that’s how the Brits liked to live. Protectiveness dressed up as pragmatism.
Sayfa 308 - HarperCollins Publishers
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“I believe that everything happens,” she said. “Period. Or full stop, as you would say. That’s it. Things happen and we have to learn to live with them, as long as suicide is off the table, that is. If we can find meaning in them, fine, but even if we can’t, we still have to live with them. The meaning is an afterthought, an anesthesia. Happens is the only word in that statement that’s empirical. The rest is whatever helps you sleep at night.
Sayfa 127 - HarperCollins Publishers
Their family had always been good at hellos and goodbyes, moments ending even as they began. It was easy to love someone in the beginnings and endings; it was all the time in between that was so hard.
Sayfa 87 - HarperCollins Publishers
The people I have the hardest time treating are the ones I cannot imagine as a child, she said. Because of the circumstances in which I was born and raised, I had to be a pretty adult child and I would like at least some part of me to be a pretty childish adult. I often see the same desire in my patients.
Sayfa 68 - HarperCollins Publishers
“You know what I say about fine.”
“For therapists, fine is a four-letter word.”
Sayfa 61 - HarperCollins Publishers
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