“to live in this world
you must be able
to do three things
to love what is mortal;
to hold itagainst your bones knowing
”
your own life depends on it;
and, when the time comes to let it go,
to let it go
“Life isn’t happily ever after and golden sunsets and shit like that. It’s work. The person you love is rarely worthy of how big your love is. Because no one is worthy of that and maybe no one deserves the burden of it, either. You’ll be let down. You’ll be disappointed and have your trust broken and have a lot of real sucky days. You lose more than you win. You hate the person you love as much as you love him. But, shit, you roll up your sleeves and work - at everything -because that’s what growing older is.”
Dennis Lehane, Mystic River
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