You have to let people be who they want, Terry said. Even if it’s not what you want them to be.
Still waters run deep, I’d thought. Later, I learned that silence did not necessarily guarantee depth.
Just a regular gal, Jo thought, and smiled, thinking, If you only knew.
I should have been moved. I wasn’t. It was as if I’d been frozen, as if I was now a woman made of ice, and he’d come at me not with a torch or even a candle, but with a toothpick, and was plink plink...
He had sacrificed so much -- And now? What if not even all that was enough to quiet that voice....the voice that said, 'You're not worthy, you don't deserve it, nothing you do will ever be enough.
Have you ever considered that there might be something wrong with your brain?Oh, I think there might be something wrong with everyone else’s.
You can’t control what they do, but you can control how you respond to it … whether you allow it to drive you crazy, or occupy all of your thoughts, or whether you note what they’re doing, consider it...
Mom about the fight, and he’d be grounded or worse. Maybe his mom wouldn’t even give him his Christmas
Your first love is important. It’s part of your story. The story you’ll tell yourself, the one you’ll tell about yourself, for the rest of your life.
We lose ourselves, she repeated, forming each word with care, but we find our way back. Wasn’t that the story of her life? Wasn’t that the story of Bethie’s? You make the wrong choices, you make mista...
This thing that I created, this thing I made as a woman, for other women, is worth something. It's worth exactly the same as what a similar thing, built by a man, for men, is worth.
Sometimes the point isn’t to end up with something worth showing the world. Sometimes it’s just rehearsal.
Something that’s bigger than you, and something that’s kind and forgiving, I’d heard one of the meeting leaders say. That’s all your Higher Power has to be.
Misses everything, Lila said, and gave the faintest smile. It’s like a joke. Like, there should be a Mister Everything somewhere.
Kau melakukan yang terbaik yang kau bisa. Itu yang dilakukan tiap ibu.
Jo inhaled slowly, trying to think of all the time she’d had with her granddaughters, and not everything that she’d miss.
It was as if real life had been canceled for the day.
If we are painstaking about this phase of our development, we will be amazed before we are halfway through.
I miss him all the time. I shook my head, disgusted at my own mopiness. It's like being haunted or something. And I don't have the luxury of being haunted right now. I need to think about myself...
I don't like futons. They can't commit. I'm a bed! I'm a couch! I'm a bed! I'm a couch!