Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was.
But once you throw a stone, there are ripples in the pond, even if you remove the rock.
But you could only remake your own future, not anyone else's, and for some people that just wasn't good enough.
Rest easy, real mothers. The very fact that you worry about being a good mom means that you already are one.
Every life has a soundtrack.
How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury?
If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?
Although you hadn't asked why, it had less to do with you not noticing than with you not wanting to hear the answer.
In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who loses a child.
I don’t think anyone who falls in love has a choice. You’re just pulled to that person like true north, whether it’s good for you or bound to break your heart.
One person's trauma is another's loss of innocence.
People work too hard to figure out the meaning of their lives. Why me, why now. The truth is, sometimes things don't happen to you for a reason. Sometimes it's just about being in the right place at the right time for someone else.
If words had flavors, hers would be bitter almonds and coffee grounds.
Sometimes when you pick up your child you can feel the map of your own bones beneath your hands, or smell the scent of your skin in the nape of his neck. This is the most extraordinary thing about motherhood - finding a piece of yourself separate and apart that all the same you could not live without.
You know how sometimes, your life is so perfect you’re afraid for the next moment, because it couldn’t possibly be quite as good? That’s what it felt like.
The world just feels different for those of us who come alive after dark. It's more fragile and unreal, a replica of the one everyone else inhabits.
Tradionally, parents made decisions for a child, because presumably they are looking out for his or her best interests. But if they are blinded, instead, by the best interests of another one of their children, the system breaks down.
I think that ordinary people who are placed in extraordinary circumstances find themselves pushed beyond their limits, and learn new truths about themselves.
There is no one truth. There’s only what happened, based on how you perceive it.
words are like nets - we hope they'll cover what we mean, but we know they can't possibly hold that much joy, or grief, or wonder.
I believe that having something to hope for - even if it's just a better tomorrow- is the most powerful drug on this planet.
Love is not an equation, it is not a contract, and it is not a happy ending. Love is the slate under the chalk, the ground that buildings rise, and the oxygen in the air. It is the place you come back to, no matter where your headed
Someone once told me that when you give birth to a daughter, you've just met the person whose hand you'll be holding the day you die.
We dont have to accept each others beliefs..but we do have to accept each others right to believe them.
When you're pregnant, you can think of nothing but having your own body to yourself again; yet after giving birth you realize that the biggest part of you is now somehow external, subject to all sorts of dangers and disappearance, so you spend the rest of your life trying to figure out how to keep her close enough for comfort. That's the strange thing about being a mother: Until you have a baby, you don't even realize how much you were missing one.
"Everyone still deserves to have their say."
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