“I refused to believe that anyone was beyond help. At the same time, I was beginning to understand that if they believed they were, nothing I did would change it.”
― When the World Fell Silent
― When the World Fell Silent
“Time quickens the older you get, as if the universe is trying to push you toward the finish line, to make room for the younger, the stronger, to mark your brief place in history and move on.”
― The Berry Pickers
― The Berry Pickers
“Hope is such a wonderful thing until it isn’t.”
― The Berry Pickers
― The Berry Pickers
“I thought I understood what love was, but now I know what it’s not. It’s not being swept off my feet and romanced, not about being reckless. It’s about being with someone who sees you at your worst and loves you anyway. Who knows what you need and gives it unreservedly.”
― When the World Fell Silent
― When the World Fell Silent
“How a mother comes to love her child, her caring at all for this thing that’s made her heavy, lopsided and slow, this thing that made her wish she were dead … that’s the miracle.”
― The Birth House
― The Birth House
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