You can't win. Either you have the baby and wear your pain on the outside, or you don't have the baby, and you keep that ache in you forever
How could you not want to draw breath one more day? How could your own life be such a cheap commodity? But then I started to understand: when your existence is hell, death must be heaven.
A lie, as you probably know, has a taste all its own. Blocky and bitter and never quite right.
I am not keeping my distance because it is uncomfortable for me, but because it is uncomfortable for them.
But there’s a part of me that wonders what it would be like to be the most important person to someone else, to always feel like you were missing a piece of yourself when he wasn’t near you.
I consider myself spiritual and I'm married to a man who is both an atheist and a humanist, and my kids have been raised with the traditions of different religions, but they do not go to church or temple. My feeling is that everyone should be able to believe what they want or need to believe.
If you read a book that's fiction and you get caught in the characters and the plot, and swept away, really, by the fiction of it - by the non-reality - you sometimes wind up changing your reality as well. Often, when the last page is turned, it will haunt you.
If you want to see God laugh, make a plan.
I always hated when my scars started to fade, because as long as I could still see them, I knew why I was hurting.
Once upon a time there were two sisters. One of them was really, really strong, and one of them wasn't.' You looked at me. 'Your turn.' I rolled my eyes. 'The strong sister went outside into the rain and realized the reason she was strong was because she was made out of iron, but it was raining and she rusted. The end.' No, because the sister who wasn't strong went outside into the rain when it was raining, and hugged her really tight until the sun came out again.
It was a strange thing, to still be in love with your wife and to not know if you liked her. What would happen when this was all over? Could you forgive someone if she hurt you and the people you love, if she truly believed she was only trying to help? I had filed for divorce, but that wasn't what I really wanted. What I really wanted was for all of us to go back two years, and start over. Had I ever really told her that?
Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines.
don't say it. don't tell me that nobody's going to stare at me, because they will. don't tell me it doesn't matter, because it does. and don't tell me i look fine because that's a lie.
You're unwilling to go out on a limb because it just might break underneath you.
What's worse ...? The devil you don't know ... or the devil you do?
There are certain things I do not talk about.
Even though it hurt, there are kinds of pain you couldn't speak out loud.
God doesn't give people burdens they can't handle.
Energy can't be destroyed, only converted into something different. So when a person dies, where does that energy go?
But mostly I wondered why the head could move so swiftly while the heart dragged its feet. I still loved him. It felt like anything else permanent that has gone missing; a lost tooth, a severed leg. You might know better, but that doesn’t keep your tongue from poling at the hole in your gum, or your phantom limb from aching.
If I have gained anything over these months, it is the knowledge there is no starting over- only living with the mistakes you've made.
If you don't know there's an alternative, you can't miss it
The best relationships were the ones where both sides went out of their way to make sure the other wasn't disappointed.
I knew what it was like to lose someone you loved. You didn't get past something like that, you got through it.
Somewhere along the line, organized religion stopped being about faith, and started being about who had the power to keep the faith. You said that the purpose of religion was to bring people together. But does it, really? Or does it-knowingly, purposefully, and intentionally--break them apart?
"Everyone still deserves to have their say."
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