StrippedBare

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“Going back to something is harder than you think.”
“I met a man once who did a lot of mountain climbing. I asked him which was harder, ascending or descending? He said without a doubt descending, because ascending you were so focused on reaching the top, you avoided mistakes.
The back side of the mountain is a fight against human nature. You have to care as much about yourself on the way down as you did on the way up.”

“When someone is in your heart, they’re never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times.”

“The more you defend a lie, the angrier you become.”

“Charley, right now, as the sun is going down here, it’s coming up someplace else in the world. Australia or China or someplace. You can look it up in the encyclopedia.
It’s such a big world, something is always happening somewhere.”

“And I realized when you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.”

“You have one family, Charley. For good or bad. You have one family. You can’t trade them in. You can’t lie to them. You can’t run two at once, substituting back and forth.
Sticking with your family is what makes it a family.”

“Secrets, Charley, they’ll tear you apart.””

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