“Go with it?”… “Don’t fight against inevitability,” I translated loosely. “Life is until it is not, so why… — Catherine Webb
“Go with it?”…
“Don’t fight against inevitability,” I translated loosely. “Life is until it is not, so why get fussed? Don’t hurt anyone, try not to give your dinner guests food poisoning, be clean in word and deed—what else is there? Just be a decent person in a decent world.”
“Everyone’s a decent person,” she replied softly, “in their own eyes.”
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