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“Our society is stuck between problem and solution when it comes to treating mental illness. We cannot find a solution until we agree on the problem. And it is my humble opinion that the problem is ...”
“Like hunting for a dead beloved's face among the living, in places, we find the place we loved before.”
“I'm an expert at finding out secrets, but keeping them- especially a secret of this magnitude - is something else.”
“Keeping secrets isn't my specialty.”
“I took her into bed with me and propped myself up with pillows against the headboard to let her nurse. As she nursed and the milk came, she began a little low contented sort of singing. I would fee...”
“If I had told him the truth long ago, or had danced and drunk and sung more, maybe he would have seen me instead of a dependable, ordinary mother. He loves a version of me that is incomplete. I alw...”
“Y'all think a body be who you is, but it ain't nothing but a motherfucking sack of meat.”
“As far as he was concerned, there were only two all-important laws on earth:1. Dont murder people.2. Never swear in front of Lilly.”
“Love and lust arent always in sync. You can love someone, but not beready to have sex with them. Or you can meet someone random and end up jumping in all the way. Theres nothing wrong with either. ...”
“I realized that the story of even so small a place can never be completely told and can never be finished. It is eternal, always here and now, and going on forever.”
“I sat down in a chair by the bed. The house got altogether still again, and I thought he was asleep. Just ever so quietly I reached over and laid my hand on his shoulder.He said, 'I love you too, H...”
“I understood him. He wanted to die at home. He didn't want to be going someplace all the time for the sake of a hopeless hope. He wanted to die as himself out of his life. He didn't want his death ...”
“Their hearts were all cycling through the same madness - the discovery, the bliss, the loss, the despair - like planets taking turns in orbit around the sun. Each containing their own unique gravit...”
“I am so afraid that strangers with think me good! and there is a degree of hypocrisy in appearing much better than one is. - Hannah More”
“A generous donor (who had no doubt lived a life that imperiled his mortal soul) had granted [the Sisters] more than one hundred waterfront acres.”
“It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven't done anything wrong: how noble! Whereas it is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent.”
“He says, "But it is really whatever, you know? You've saved me way more times. And we call ourselves friends."It doesn't matter what we call ourselves, really. "You already saved me," I say."That w...”
“I hold my finger up to his lips. He flicks his eyes down to look at it."You're absolved," I tell him.He brings his eyes back up to mine. There's no fucking way he knows what that word means. That's...”
“She pouted prettily, and he wondered if that was one of the things they taught wealthy young girls at schools like Miss Porter's. If not, it had been passed down from one generation to another as c...”
“Tragedy was like that, a razor that sliced through time, severing the now from the before, incising the what-might-have-been from reality as cleanly as any surgeon's blade.”
