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“The progress of a struggling teen has less to do with the application of specific parenting techniques than with the parents’ own patient, persistent efforts to construct relationships with their s...”
“I've found what makes children happy doesn't always prepare them to be courageous, engaged adults.”
“Trauma is personal. It does not disappear if it is not validated.”
“To those of us who believe that all of life is sacred every crumb of bread and sip of wine is a Eucharist, a remembrance, a call to awareness of holiness right where we are.I want all of the holine...”
“Eating – overeating – saved me. It comforted me when I was at the mercy of grown-ups who didn't know how to give what I needed. Food was something to which I had ready access, and with it I cleverl...”
“It has long been my motto that if you cannot get your act together... then the very least you can do is try to make your act entertaining.”
“We don't come to the table to fight or to defend. We don't come to prove or to conquer, to draw lines in the sand or to stir up trouble. We come to the table because our hunger brings us there. We ...”
“Food matters because it's one of the things that forces us to live in this world -- this tactile, physical, messy, and beautiful world -- no matter how hard we try to escape into our minds and our ...”
“In the past, my brain could only compute perfection or failure—nothing in between. So words like competent, acceptable, satisfactory, and good enough fell into the failure category. Even above aver...”
“sometimes being silent is the best way to appreciate the moment”
“Original sin is a very commercial idea,” said Duyckinck. “How do you think the Bible stays in print year after year?”
“Being with her is my survival”
“If we had always thought from a so-called practical angle – we would’ve never had anything new in this world. We would’ve hidden under the security of practicality and taken no risk, we would have ...”
“I think… that love encompasses the experience of the possible transition from the pure randomness of chance to a state that has universal value. Starting out from something that is simply anencount...”
“I know,” he said, very softly. “Let’s go home. Let’s go home, and you can tell me whatever you want, and I’ll believe you.”
“I don’t want to be the anchor around his feet. I want to be the sky. I want to be the colorful weird name.”
“No!I don’t love you!I just like you, a little.Your lips are sweet,and your eyes are precious to me.No!I don’t love you!I just like you, a little....”
“I must go now”, she said slowly and slipped her hand from his. Aarav looked at her face.. the water droplets pretended to be some shining gems embedded on a fine piece of white marble and a few str...”
“f you are ready to cry..to feel the pain..to take the risk? You are ready for love”
“Good lovers are not good fuckers”
