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As Bright as Heaven
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"As Bright as Heaven" Quotes

A family navigates love, loss, and the Spanish flu epidemic in Philadelphia during World War I.

Quotes

Grief has no expiration date, no time stamp, and no right or wrong way to do it.

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grief

Sometimes the worst thing that happens to you, the thing you think you can't survive... it's the thing that saves you.

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survival

Life is made up of moments, small pieces of glittering mica in a long stretch of gray cement. It would be wonderful if they came to us unsummoned, but particularly in lives as busy as the ones most of us lead now, that won't happen. We have to teach ourselves how to make room for them, to love them, and to live, really live.

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lifemoments

The past is always with us, he has said, and it is up to us to find a way to make peace with it.

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pastpeace

Sometimes we have to let go of who we are in order to embrace who we can become.

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self-discovery

In the end, the beauty of life is in the living of it, not in what we accumulate or what we accomplish.

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lifebeauty

Some things are meant to be, even if they do sometimes go off course.

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fate

Apologies can be powerful, but they don't always make things right.

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apologies

Life is a tapestry of moments both big and small, woven together by the threads of our choices.

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lifechoices

Sometimes the things we can't change end up changing us.

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change