How often is immense sadness mistaken for courage?

How often is immense sadness mistaken for courage?

She wouldn't climb out of the bed for her sister, but she had climbed into a crater. She wouldn't cross a room, but she had crossed a continent.

We twist our souls around each other’s miseries.

Life: a constellation of vital phenomena—organization, irritability, movement, growth, reproduction, adaptation.

Anytime I can get either of them really laughing, I immediately pull out a pad of paper write the joke down, regardless of where we are or what we're doing. I must be absolutely insufferable.

Invader and invaded held on to their fistfuls of earth, but in the end, the earth outlived the hands that held it.