My heart should be breaking, too, but there comes a point when youโre so inured to loss that you no longer feel the lash.
Ann AguirrePerhaps that was the point; life, if you did it right, meant learning and changing. If you didn't, you died- or stopped growing - which amounted to more or less the same thing. So I would slide in and out of different roles until I discovered the one that fit me best. -Deuce, (183)
Ann AguirreMy body was a machine, plain and simple. I worked it to stay strong; I fed it to keep it running.
Ann AguirreMaybe I was just one of those people who couldn't rest easy unless things went catastrophically wrong.
Ann AguirreHave you ever watched a child learning to walk? Before this week, I never had, but there's a certain grace to it. Well, if not grace, then tenacity. Fall down nine times--get up ten. And the tenth time you get where you're going, you don't stop, not for obstacles, not for other people telling you to stop. You don't listen to anything but that inner voice until you arrive where you want to be.
Ann Aguirre