It’s all these choices that we could have made, the things we might have done. We see them with perfect clarity only long after the moment has passed. Just thirty seconds either way, and I wouldn’t ha...
Let’s love our girls well and protect their spirits, Introduce them to their own strength and power, and Keep them as bright and beautiful as the day they were born.
But there was something more true, more solid about loving someone through change.
But words are all we have, their essence the only passage into our centers, the only way we can make people feel what we feel
You know, he said. He paused a minute, as though picking his words carefully. It’s okay to disappoint people sometimes. It’s okay for us to say no simply because we don’t want to do something. Intelle...
No one ever talks about issues like dissociative identity disorder, fugue, or psychotic breaks in anything but the most negative light. No one ever talks about how the personality does this type of th...
Totally different outcomes; we’ve made totally different choices in our lives. Like I said, how you were raised is part of the big picture. It’s one important factor in a million. But in the end, it’s...
Memory is elastic, and no two people have the same version of any given event. Our versions of our own lives are necessarily fictional to some degree, wouldn't you agree?
Uselessness, she thought, was the permanent condition of parenthood.
She could push inside or walk away. She could force a conversation, which might turn into a fight. Or just let him come to her when he was ready. She hesitated a moment, conflicted. Then she opted for...
Wasn’t there some belief about how if you drop a frog into boiling water, it will jump right out? But if you put it in cold water and turn up the heat gradually, it will allow itself to slowly cook to...
Motherhood was an ever widening circle of good-byes.
There were only two ways of being in the world. You either walked through life acting out of love, or you acted out of fear.
Give up, she wanted to tell them. You lost. The world is crap, and no amount of communicating is going to change it.
It’s never one thing that leads to a tragic accident, she was sure she’d read once—though she couldn’t say where. It’s usually seven things—seven mistakes, or errors in judgment, or acts of negligence...
He didn’t seem like the sharpest tool in the shed.
An awareness of your own worth is the most attractive quality in the world.
You didn't wind up on a pole without a lot of help from your family.
Kindness, I think, comes from learning hard lessons well, from falling and picking yourself up. It comes from surviving failure and loss. It implies an understanding of the human condition, forgives i...
What had amazed him, what amazed him still, even after all these years, was how quickly he’d stepped out of himself. He’d slipped off every convention and moral that had defined him, a great cowl that...
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