“I take a longer look at the words on her headstone.
Brave, kind, loyal, sweet, loving, graceful, strong, thoughtful, funny, genuine, hopeful, playful, insightful, and on and on…
Was she, though? Was she any of those things? The words make me angry. I can’t look at them any longer.
Why do we romanticize the dead? Why can’t we be honest about them?”
― I'm Glad My Mom Died
Brave, kind, loyal, sweet, loving, graceful, strong, thoughtful, funny, genuine, hopeful, playful, insightful, and on and on…
Was she, though? Was she any of those things? The words make me angry. I can’t look at them any longer.
Why do we romanticize the dead? Why can’t we be honest about them?”
― I'm Glad My Mom Died
“if you spend too much time looking in the rearview mirror, you will crash your car.”
― Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing
― Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing
“Maybe life does give us more than we can handle so that we have no choice but to reach out to one another and connect.”
― The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control: A Path to Peace and Power
― The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control: A Path to Peace and Power
“Sometimes he is benign, sometimes stern, almost maleficent. A word so close to magnificent, she thinks, sent off-course by maleness.”
― The Names
― The Names
“Someday I am going to love him in a moment that isn't stolen, she promised herself.
-Chapter 35”
― Manacled
-Chapter 35”
― Manacled
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