The best place to cry is on a mother's arms.
Jodi Picoult, House Rules.
“It's never the differences between people that surprise us. It's the things that, against all odds, we have in common.”
“Then Henry speaks again. "Did he do it?"I turn to him slowly. "Does it matter?”
“I don't understand why people never say what they mean. It's like the immigrants who come to a country and learn the language but are completely baffled by idioms. (Seriously, how could anyone who ...”
“I [Jacob Hunt, Aspie] see it as the next step of evolution: I cannot take away your sadness, so why should I acknowledge it?”
“We're [parents]) always bluffing, pretending we know best, when most of the time we're just praying we won't screw up too badly.”
“This is where I go, when I go:It's a room with no windows and no doors, and walls that are thin enough for me to see and hear everything but too thick to break through.I'm there, but I'm not there....”
“When the Earth basks in the Sun's brilliance, you'll find me there with my arms spread wide and my face with a smile.”
“A warrior fears the battle he missed. More than any fight he can make his own, he fears the fight thats gone, that ended without him, that no feat of arms can change.”
“Sir Edward Grey echoed this: More than one true thing may be said about the causes of the war, but the statement that comprises most truth is that militarism and the armaments inseparable from it m...”
“A word mother, means a world to me.”
“Maa" The only word that holds power to give you strength when you are in pain.”
“STAINSWith red clay between my toes,and the sun setting over my head,the ghost of my mother blows in,riding on a honeysuckle breeze, oh lord,riding on a honeysuckle breeze.Her teeth, the keys of a ...”