She loved knowing that if she worked hard enough, at the end there was going to be an answer that made sense.
If you don’t know where you’ve come from, how in Heaven’s name will you ever figure out where you’re going?
But forgiving isn’t something you do for someone else. It’s something you do for yourself.
Survivors who look perfectly fine on the outside can still be emotionally empty at the core. And because of that, they can’t always connect with their kids or their spouses – or they make the conscious decision not to connect, so that they don’t fail the people they love.
She wondered if grief could make time run faster, like a glitch in a clock.
Aku menyayangimu, kataku, suaraku terdengar hampa karena tangis. Aku sangat menyayangimu hingga aku tak tahu aku akan hidup dengan siapa jika kau tidak ada. Dan bahkan jika usahaku menghabiskan waktu seluruh hidupku, aku akan membuatmu paham kenapa hidupmu membuat perbedaan.
He would wonder how much a man could take before he reduced himself to nothing. He.
Cruelty is always sort of fun until you realize that something’s getting hurt. It.
Caesar snorts. ‘Maybe it was. Maybe the fat guy was really a suicide arsonist. He crawled up into the chimney and lit himself on fire.’ ‘Maybe he was just desperate to lose weight,’ Paulie adds, and the other guys crack up. ‘Enough,’ I say. ‘Aw, Fitz, you gotta admit it’s pretty funny – ’ ‘Not to that man’s parents. Not to his family.
Can you fall for someone because you’re lazy?
Terkadang kau harus jadi manusia yang buruk demi menjadi ibu yang baik.
Often, with fragile witnesses or young children, they’d plant a person as a focal point to make testifying less scary. To make them feel that out of that whole crowd of people, they had at least one friend.
I was healthy. I wasn’t starving or maimed by a land mine or orphaned. Yet somehow, it wasn’t enough. I had a hole in me, and everything I took for granted slipped through it like sand. I.
They can take away my livelihood and my food and” – here his voice hitched – “my grandson. But they can’t take away my dreams.” His.
You’re not hiding, but you’re sitting in a gay bar at dinnertime. You’re not hiding, but you’re wearing that suit like it’s armor.
Driving home, I am struck by the sudden thought that the world is inflatable, trees and grass and houses ready to collapse with the single prick of a pin. I have the sense that if I veer the car to the left, smash through the picket fence and the little Tykes playground, it will bounce us back like a rubber bumper.
You’ve never gone down the street and had someone cross it just because you’re black. You’ve never had someone look at you with disgust because you’re holding a baby and you forgot to put on your wedding ring. You want to do something about it-take action, scream at them, tell them they’re idiots-but you can’t. Being on the fringe is the most disempowering feeling, Jordan. You get so used to the world being a certain way, there seems to be no escape from it.
I think it’s human nature that those of us who are married cannot rest easy until we find mates for our single friends.
There have been too many moments in my life when I’ve nearly gone off the rails, more overwhelmed by emotion than tempered by reason.
In her experience, the moment you showed you were weak in front of someone, they’d use it against you.