{"id":9119,"date":"2016-07-31T19:11:42","date_gmt":"2016-08-01T00:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=9119"},"modified":"2016-08-02T12:32:25","modified_gmt":"2016-08-02T17:32:25","slug":"meanwhile-back-in-the-darkness-within","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/9119","title":{"rendered":"Meanwhile…Back In The Darkness Within…"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more,<\/em>
and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness <\/em>
that robs the joy from life.”<\/em>
-Merle Shain<\/p>\n

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“It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.”<\/em>
\u2014 Jonathan Safran Foer<\/p>\n

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“I said nothing for a time, just ran my fingertips along the edge of the<\/em>
human-shaped emptiness that had been left inside me.”<\/em>
\u2014 Haruki Murakami<\/p>\n

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“There’s just something obvious about emptiness, even when you try to convince yourself otherwise. ”<\/em>
\u2014 Sarah Dessen<\/p>\n

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“Nothing has an unlikely quality. It is heavy.”<\/em>
\u2014 Jeanette Winterson<\/p>\n

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“Grief … gives life a permanently provisional feeling. It doesn’t seem worth starting anything. <\/em>
I can’t settle down. I yawn, I fidget, I smoke too much. Up till this I always had too little time. <\/em>
Now there is nothing but time. Almost pure time, empty successiveness.”<\/em>
\u2014 C.S. Lewis<\/p>\n

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“To me, you were more than just a person. You were a place where I finally felt at home.”<\/em>
\u2014 Denice Envall<\/p>\n

Except it was all fake. Teenagers in love put each other up on pedestals all the time. That’s okay. Teenagers can do that. Just know that when you grow up you’ll have to accept that not everyone actually \u00a0belonged there. Prince Charming isn’t someone you find. He’s someone you \u00a0awaken inside of another. If he’s in there. They’re not always in there. That doesn’t make you the fool. What was inside of you \u00a0was real, even if what you thought you saw inside of him wasn’t.<\/p>\n

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