We sometimes choose the most locked up, dark versions of the story, but what a good friend does is turn on the lights, o — Shauna Niequist, Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way
We sometimes choose the most locked up, dark versions of the story, but what a good friend does is turn on the lights, o — Shauna Niequist, Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way
We sometimes choose the most locked up, dark versions of the story, but what a good friend does is turn on the lights, o — Shauna Niequist, Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way
We sometimes choose the most locked up, dark versions of the story, but what a good friend does is turn on the lights, o — Shauna Niequist, Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way
We sometimes choose the most locked up, dark versions of the story, but what a good friend does is turn on the lights, o — Shauna Niequist, Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way
We sometimes choose the most locked up, dark versions of the story, but what a good friend does is turn on the lights, o — Shauna Niequist, Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way
We sometimes choose the most locked up, dark versions of the story, but what a good friend does is turn on the lights, o — Shauna Niequist, Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way
We sometimes choose the most locked up, dark versions of the story, but what a good friend does is turn on the lights, o — Shauna Niequist, Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way
We sometimes choose the most locked up, dark versions of the story, but what a good friend does is turn on the lights, o — Shauna Niequist, Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way
We sometimes choose the most locked up, dark versions of the story, but what a good friend does is turn on the lights, o — Shauna Niequist, Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way
We sometimes choose the most locked up, dark versions of the story, but what a good friend does is turn on the lights, o — Shauna Niequist, Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way
We sometimes choose the most locked up, dark versions of the story, but what a good friend does is turn on the lights, o — Shauna Niequist, Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way
We sometimes choose the most locked up, dark versions of the story, but what a good friend does is turn on the lights, o — Shauna Niequist, Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way
We sometimes choose the most locked up, dark versions of the story, but what a good friend does is turn on the lights, o — Shauna Niequist, Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way
We sometimes choose the most locked up, dark versions of the story, but what a good friend does is turn on the lights, o — Shauna Niequist, Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way
We sometimes choose the most locked up, dark versions of the story, but what a good friend does is turn on the lights, o — Shauna Niequist, Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way
We sometimes choose the most locked up, dark versions of the story, but what a good friend does is turn on the lights, o — Shauna Niequist, Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way
We sometimes choose the most locked up, dark versions of the story, but what a good friend does is turn on the lights, o — Shauna Niequist, Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way
We sometimes choose the most locked up, dark versions of the story, but what a good friend does is turn on the lights, o — Shauna Niequist, Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way
We sometimes choose the most locked up, dark versions of the story, but what a good friend does is turn on the lights, o — Shauna Niequist, Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way
We sometimes choose the most locked up, dark versions of the story, but what a good friend does is turn on the lights, o — Shauna Niequist, Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way
We sometimes choose the most locked up, dark versions of the story, but what a good friend does is turn on the lights, o — Shauna Niequist, Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way
We sometimes choose the most locked up, dark versions of the story, but what a good friend does is turn on the lights, o — Shauna Niequist, Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way
We sometimes choose the most locked up, dark versions of the story, but what a good friend does is turn on the lights, o — Shauna Niequist, Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way
We sometimes choose the most locked up, dark versions of the story, but what a good friend does is turn on the lights, o — Shauna Niequist, Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way
We sometimes choose the most locked up, dark versions of the story, but what a good friend does is turn on the lights, o — Shauna Niequist, Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way
We sometimes choose the most locked up, dark versions of the story, but what a good friend does is turn on the lights, o — Shauna Niequist, Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way
We sometimes choose the most locked up, dark versions of the story, but what a good friend does is turn on the lights, o — Shauna Niequist, Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way
We sometimes choose the most locked up, dark versions of the story, but what a good friend does is turn on the lights, o — Shauna Niequist, Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way
We sometimes choose the most locked up, dark versions of the story, but what a good friend does is turn on the lights, o — Shauna Niequist, Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way
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We sometimes choose the most locked up, dark versions of the story, but what a good friend does is turn on the lights, open the window, and remind us that there are a whole lot of ways to tell the same story.

— Shauna Niequist, Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way
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