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How Lucky

Will Leitch

Top 10 Best Quotes

“You look at me like I have something to be sad about. My existence makes you grateful you are not me.”

“It was all in the wake of that realization that life is pain, that everything you love can and will be taken away from you, that the only way to keep going is to accept that that big black grief is going to fester there in your stomach forever - that it's never going to get better" This is what made me realize that I am lucky .... I know that this is selfish, this solace in the fact that my loved ones will miss me and thus have to experience pain that I never will. ... I get to go first . I get to leave before grief ever becomes the house guest that never leaves. how lucky, not having to live with the ache of saying goodbye.”

“I am still inside here, with my own thoughts, and my own worries, and my own obsessions, and my own rage.”

“... I have changed this world. I have found my place. The world is different because I was in it. This is what we should all want.”

“This is one of Travis’s greatest gifts: the ability to make all unpleasantness and worry disappear simply by not paying attention. He’s like a goldfish with a head injury.”

“I have people who love me. I have people who will be with me until the absolute end. I have the warmth of knowing that when I am gone, no matter when that is, the people near me will speak of me and remember me and keep me in their souls for the rest of their lives. I have helped people, and I have people who have helped me. Letting someone help you is the nicest thing you can do for anyone.”

“I have brought light into this world, and I have been given light from this world. And what light it is! I can say that I have lived. Can you say that you have lived? You must be able to say that you have lived. I have loved, and I have been loved. That is all we should want This is all you have to do right now. It's right in front of you.”

“I am blessed. I am blessed because I am going to go long before any of them do. I am not going to have to grieve for them, because they are going to have to grieve for me.”

“intercostal muscles. They are located between your ribs, and basically, they are how you breathe.”

“You know it’s Sunday because no one in their right mind would ever opt for Zaxby’s over Chick-fil-A unless it were Sunday and they had no choice.”

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