If you haven't already, you will lose someone you can't live without, and your heart will be badly broken, and you never completely get over the loss of a deeply beloved person. But this is also good news. The person lives forever, in your broken heart that doesn't seal back up. And you come through, and you learn to dance with the banged-up heart.

Anne Lamott in Plan B

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Anne Lamott (born April 10, 1954) is an American novelist and nonfiction writer.

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