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See my weakness, my ambivalence, and my unwillingness to commit myself. Qualities I’d learned were so ugly that you were better off hiding them. Qualities that smelled bad when they surfaced, like garbage floating on a river.
“Even the guy’s office was a turnoff—black leather couches, plastic plants, glass and chrome desk. Way to make your patients feel comfortable, buddy. And of course everything was perfectly lined up on the desk. His teeth were the only damn thing crooked in his office, and if you ask me, there’s something a little strange about a guy who needs to line up everything on his desk but doesn’t get his teeth fixed.”
― Still Missing
― Still Missing
“Sometimes pain stacked up, its weight crushing. Lifting it off to put life back together felt impossible.”
― Vendetta
― Vendetta
“Life is what you make it,” she’d say, “not what I make it. Your life is a blank slate. Dream it up just the way you want it, and then go get it. It’s your own masterpiece to create.”
― Summer at Firefly Beach
― Summer at Firefly Beach
“If we can share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can't survive.”
― Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
― Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
“You were bored and angry. I took you on when no one else wanted you.’ Gamache was speaking so softly no one else could hear. And he was speaking with open affection. Beauvoir suddenly remembered the lesson he always hurried to forget. Gamache was the best of them, the smartest and bravest and strongest because he was willing to go into his own head alone, and open all the doors there, and enter all the dark rooms. And make friends with what he found there. And he went into the dark, hidden rooms in the minds of others. The minds of killers. And he faced down whatever monsters came at him. He went to places Beauvoir had never even dreamed existed.”
― A Fatal Grace
― A Fatal Grace
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