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Shanti was a difficult baby and became more so when Asha’s birth—just a few years later—took my attention away from her. Pierre tried to make up for it by taking Shanti for special outings while I was busy with baby Asha, but Shanti wanted
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“Peter has a lot of faults — we all do — but love makes you overlook them, and try to see what is good. I couldn’t have done that before — at the first sign of weakness I dropped the men I thought I loved. It’s different now.”
― The Gift of Rain
― The Gift of Rain
“Veins of lightning flared and throbbed behind the wall of clouds, turning the bruised sky pink, and I felt I was being granted glimpses of blood pulsing silently through the ventricles of an immense human heart.”
― The Gift of Rain
― The Gift of Rain
“It was a hot summer’s day, the carp ponds so still the dragonflies seemed mesmerized by their own reflections on the water.”
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“Confidence, I’d learned then, sometimes needs to be called from within. I’ve repeated the same words to myself many times now, through many claims.
Am I good enough? Yes I am.”
― Becoming
Am I good enough? Yes I am.”
― Becoming
“Do you know what the worst thing about being a parent is? That you're always judged by your worst moments. You can do a million things right, but if you do one single thing wrong you're forever that parent who was checking his phone in the park when your child was hit in the head by a swing. We don't take our eyes off them for days at a time, but then you read just one text message and it's as if all your best moments never happened. No one goes to see a psychologist to talk about all the times they weren't hit in the head by a swing as a child. Parents are defined by their mistakes.”
― Anxious People
― Anxious People
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