the only way we grow

'letting go is the easy part. It's the moving on that's painful. so sometimes we fight.  to keep everything the same.  but things can't stay the same. at some point you have to let go. because no matter how painful it is, it's the only way we grow '

'We are all alone in this world. Anybody tells you otherwise is lying to you or trying to sell you something.

Grey's anatomy

Rather than imagine a new life, I pretended about the old one.

But along the way I have made more mistakes than that one. Probably the biggest of them was not accepting the inevitability of change more than twenty years ago.  Rather than imagine a new life, I pretended about the old one.  And for that I have surely paid a price.  In my darker moods, I feel the cost has been too high, that fate has exacted an unfair revenge.  But most of the time, when I think of how much worse it all could have turned out, I realize I have been lucky.  It does not matter, though.  I am going on.  I have never doubted that.

The Innocent. Scot Turow.