Paula Garner Quotes

#1. You really could do it - you're just too dumb to know it.

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#2. She picked me up, dusted me off, and kicked my ass. Maybe we all need that from time to time. If we're lucky, there's someone there who cares enough to do it.

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#3. What I wouldn't have given for this moment to be happening without her fucking boyfriend there.

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#4. Here's the truth about healing. It's a fucking myth - an idea they try to sell you on to keep you from killing yourself. You love someone and they leave, but they never entirely go away. You feel them there, acutely, like an amputated limb.

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#5. If something is unbearable, then how do you bear it? It's an oxymoron. And yet I was here, wasn't I? Somehow I was bearing it.

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#6. It was like shoveling smoke.

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#7. There was life before you, and then life with you. There wasn't supposed to be life after you.

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#8. So while my body was to be regarded as a temple, hers was more like a motel for transients.

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#9. I could never quite figure out if I needed to rescue Dara or be rescued from her.

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#10. We were battered and dinged, both well past the weight limit in personal baggage. And, like the rest of humanity, it would be our destiny to be tossed and torn by events unseen and unplanned. But that didn't stop me from hoping we could somehow navigate it together.

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#11. I didn't have room inside me for any more pain. As it turned out, though, I was wrong about that.

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#12. It started the way so many good things do: with bacon.

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#13. God, I miss you," she said. "Missed? Or miss?" "Miss." "But I'm right here," I said into her hair. "I miss you anyway.

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