71 quotes found
“It never failed to amaze me how the most ordinary day could be catapulted into the extraordinary in the blink of an eye.”
“But memory is like plaster: peel it back and you just might find a completely different picture.”
“When you think you're right, you're most likely wrong.”
“Things that look impossible suddenly seem a lot better, once you get God on board.”
“Maybe that's what we do to the people we love: take shots in the dark and realize too late that we've wounded the people we are trying to protect.”
“No, honestly, my mouth shouldn't be able to function unless my brain's engaged.”
“I wondered why the head could move so swiftly while the heart dragged its feet.”
“A sacrament--like marriage--means living a life better than your natural instincts, so that you're modeling God. And God never gives up.”
“I wondered about the explorers who'd sailed their ships to the end of the world. How terrified they must have been when they risked falling over the edge; how amazed to discover, instead, places th...”
“Was it the act of giving birth that made you a mother? Did you lose that label when you relinquished your child? If people were measured by their deeds, on the one hand, I had a woman who had chose...”
“Sometimes, mothers say and do things that seem like they don't want their kids... but when you look more closely, you realize that they're doing those kids a favor. They're just trying to give them...”
“[I] don't think I was trying to kill myself. I just wanted to hurt, and understand exactly whay I was hurting. This made sense: you cut, you felt pain, period.”
“I wondered how long it took for a baby to become yours, for familiarity to set in. Maybe as long as it took a new car to lose that scent, or a brand-new house to gather dust. Maybe that was the pro...”
“You don't have to say I love you to say I love you.”
“It was one thing to make a mistake; it was another thing to keep making it. I knew what happened when you let yourself get close to someone, when you started to believe they loved you: you'd be dis...”
“It was one thing to sacrifice your own life for someone else's. It was another thing entirely to bring into the mix a third party - a third party who knew you, who trusted you implicitly.”
“Memory is like plaster: peel it back and you just might find a completely different picture.”
“She'd been in labor for nineteen hours; I completely understood why she wanted to pass the buck. 'You are so beautiful,' her husband crooned, holding up her shoulders.'You are so full of shit,' Lil...”
“Lawyers were notorious for finding cases in the most unlikely places, especially ones with huge potential damagers awards.”
“Was there a language of loss? Did everyone who suffered speak a different dialect?”
