Donna Freitas Quotes

Life was fragile and love was, too. At any moment, even our happiest ones, our world could shatter and we wouldn’t see it coming. There was only more loss ahead, showing its ugly face when we least ex...

…) I devised a list of things I needed to accomplish, all of them related to the Survival Kit and my mother. I was no longer going in any particular order or interpreting my tasks so literally and nar...

…) I was out of practice with my emotions (…)

To create a community where faith matters not just in theory but in reality, faith has to be a public value, not just a private one.

…) it never occurred to me that the girl I`d always been in high school could bend and shift and change without breaking altogether!

The girl I am now, girl--she survived. I just needed a little help getting here.

Yet little by little, I was also becoming the girl who was learning to live with this, all of it, letting it weave together with everything else, the good and the bad, as life moved forward, because t...

Why is it that when we lose something big, we begin to lose everything else along with it?

There is a liminal space created between the powerful person and the person who is the target of unwanted attention, a liminal space between outright yes and outright no. That space is not a compromis...

It's difficult to stop trying with the one you love. You always hope that this next time might work, might change everything for the better.

…) I would work my way toward the Rose from before, who laughed often, who felt things so deeply, who could move through the world brimming with feeling and emotion.

Before the first plugs, an early version of the virtual world existed. People carried around handheld devices that allowed them to access it.

I've barely been able to think about anything else.''Other than...' He waited for me to finish.'Kissing you, dummy,' I said.'Really?''You shouldn't be that surprised,' I said.He grinned. 'I'm just gla...

I guess you could say my mind was injured and that’s why I didn’t play.

I thought about love as we stood there, the day turning to dusk and the temperature dropping, and my heart, the one inside of me, become fuller.

All around the country, at universities far and wide, at workplaces of all sizes and types, at companies that boast of doing good and making the world a better place, there are file cabinets full of t...

This is what I imagined as I watched my kite, my beautiful kite, with its heart, its star and crayon, its note and flowers glowing from the light of the sun behind it. I felt love and grief and joy an...

I am a survivor, but I also am, and always will be, a victim. I can't speak for others who share this dual identity, but I can say for myself that, while I wish to be the proud person who exclusively...

There were just little things and they still made me sad, but I become better at staying in my sadness and at resisting the urge to chase it away.

The only thing that mattered was where I was and who I was with now, and when Will’s arms tightened around me I knew I was right where I needed to be all along.