Time is an optical illusion- never quite as soild or strong as we think it is
That's what happens to dreams, life gets in the way.
Families were never what you wanted them to be. We all wanted what we couldn't have: the perfect child, the doting husband, the mother who wouldn't let go. We live in our grown-up dollhouses completely unaware that, at any moment, a hand might come in and change around everything we'd become accustomed to.
Things break all the time. Day breaks, waves break, voices break. Promises break. Hearts break.
They ask, how could this happen here? Well. How could it not happen here?
A dutiful mother is someone who follows every step her child makes...And a good mother is someone whose child wants to follow her.
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?
People changed. Even the people you thought you knew as well as you knew yourself.
I don't understand why people never say what they mean. It's like the immigrants who come to a country and learn the language but are completely baffled by idioms. (Seriously, how could anyone who isn't a native English speaker 'get the picture,' so to speak, and not assume it has something to do with a photo or a painting?)
I know Mark,' I reply. 'And I don't like him.' 'But I do. And part of being social means being civil to someone you don't like.' 'That's stupid. It's a huge world. why not just get up and walk away?' 'Because that's rude,' Jess explains. 'I think it's rude to stick a smile on your face and pretend you like talking to someone when in reality you'd rather be sticking bamboo slivers under your fingernails.
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.
"Everyone still deserves to have their say."
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