On pain...

"I've got this little thing I've learned to do just lately...When it's so hard I think I shan't go on, I try to make it worse. I make myself think about Berkeley. Our camp on the river. How good it was. When I'm certain I won't stand it, I go a moment more. Then I know I can bear anything."

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Books and Bindings

There are books that are like a wind through your life. They can send a shiver down your spine or offer up a refreshing breeze. They are random. If you had read them perhaps at another moment instead of that moment, perhaps they would have had no effect at all.



Then there are those other books. The books that you keep beneath your pillow, beside your bed, and in your heart.

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