She simply didn't have an interest in men anymore. It wasn't that she didn't like them, she just knew how easily they broke.
Erica BauermeisterJack's marketing books had been a part of her life for so long that she had ceased to register their presence, simply moving them from the couch to the coffee table, from the bed to the nightstand. How to Sell Everything to Anybody. Eight Great Habits of CEOs. They all seemed to involve numbers, as if you could simply count yourself to riches, like following sheep to sleep.
Erica BauermeisterTags: books numbers marketing analytics big-data
I walked across a bridge that doesn't exist. And after that, being scared just didn't seem so important anymore.
Erica BauermeisterShe found herself wondering at what point in her life she had ceased to be Gulliver and had become the strings holding him to the ground.
Erica BauermeisterTags: children responsibility gulliver
You're not traveling if you already know everything.
Erica BauermeisterTags: knowledge adventure travel
When Sean died she understood for the first time how completely human beings were dependent upon a suspension of disbelief in order to simply move forward through their days. If that suspension faltered, if you truly understood, even if only for a moment, that human beings were made of bones and blood that broke and sprayed with the slightest provocation, and that provocation was everywhere--in street curbs and dangling tree limbs, bicycles and pencils--well you would fly for the first nest in a tree, run flat-out for the first burrow you saw.
Erica BauermeisterThere were moments in life, Marion thought, when you reached back, baton in hand, feeling the runner behind you. Felt the clasp of their fingers resonating through the wood, the release of your hand, which then flew forward, empty, into the space ahead of you.
Erica BauermeisterTags: togetherness collaboration running resonating
Each person's heart breaks in it's own way. Every cure will be different, but there are some things we all need. Before anything else, we need to feel safe.
Erica BauermeisterTags: heartbreak
When she realized that there are many kinds of love and not all of them are obvious. That some wait like presents in the back of the closet until you are able to open them.
Erica BauermeisterThe cold reality of it had struck her, as if, perched on the crest of a roller coaster, the rest of the ride was suddenly, irreversibly clear. On the way up, the vista had been infinite, the time to look about sometimes agonizingly long; now there was only the certain and dispassionate knowledge that there was one set of rails on which to travel, the ending immutable and about to begin. It didn't matter that the rest of the trip might take twenty, even thirty years to complete; the angle of the ride had changed.
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