16 quotes found
“Not that she didn't about fighting losing battles.”
“Uselessness, she thought, was the permanent condition of parenthood.”
“The Universe doesn't like secrets. It conspires to reveal the truth, to lead you to it.”
“Many people believe that evil is the presence of something. I think it's the absence of something.”
“The truth has not so much set us free as it has ripped away a carefully constructed facade, leaving us naked to begin again.”
“It's strange how memory gets twisted and pulled like taffy in its retelling, how a single event can mean something different to everyone present.”
“I think most people are just trying to be happy, and that most of their actions, however misguided, are in line with that goal. Most people just want to feel they belong somewhere, want to be loved...”
“When you start to really know someone, all his physical characteristics start to disappear. You begin to dwell in his energy, recognize the scent of his skin. You see only the essence of the person...”
“Never talk to strangers. If someone ever tries to take you, fight with everything you have. Scream as loud as you can. (He'd never told her what to do if the man was too strong and there was no one...”
“...in the end it's not just the big and small events that make you who you are, make your life what it is, it's how you choose to react to them-that's where you have control over your life.”
“Depression is not dramatic, but it is total. Its sneaky - you almost dont notice it at first. Like a cat burglar, it comes in through an open window while youre sleeping. It takes little things at ...”
“I've always had this in a kind of worst-case dark imagination. I want to know what the dark form in the window is. I want to know what the noise under the staircase is.”
“Others of us are lost. We're forever seeking. We torture ourselves with philosophies and ache to see the world. We question everything, even our own existence. We ask a lifetime of questions and ar...”
“Parenthood wasnt about blood or biology, he found; it was about a joyful willingness to give yourself over, to subordinate your own needs for someone elses. When you loved your kids, youd give up e...”
“Depression is not dramatic, but it is total. It’s sneaky - you almost don’t notice it at first. Like a cat burglar, it comes in through an open window while you’re sleeping. It takes little things ...”
“Parenthood wasn’t about blood or biology, he found; it was about a joyful willingness to give yourself over, to subordinate your own needs for someone else’s. When you loved your kids, you’d give u...”
