Gloria laughed at them and said she’d overtaken grief a long time ago, that she was tired of everyone wanting to go to heaven, nobody wanting to die. The only thing worth grieving over, she said, was that sometimes there was more beauty in this life than the world could bear.
Let the Great World Spin  by Colum McCann (via mangofreee)

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