01:15

comakid:

and when you’re finished with me, you’ll go back to your life completely unscathed. your actual life waits at a standstill. refined and poised and waiting for you to resume.

23:33

Back to square one?

13:09"Because God is never cruel, there is a reason for all things. We must know the pain of loss; because if we never knew it, we would have no compassion for others, and we would become monsters of self-regard, creatures of unalloyed self-interest. The terrible pain of loss teaches humility to our prideful kind, has the power to soften uncaring hearts, to make a better person of a good one." — Dean Koontz, The Darkest Evening of the Year (via sufficio)