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A wise teacher once told me that the goal isn’t to be happy all the time. It’s better to experience a range of emotions, especially the difficult ones. He said that’s how we learn, how we grow. I think he said, ‘Sunshine all the time makes
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“I’m as wary of certainty as I am of good vibes and positive thinking. They’re delusions that allow you to ignore reality and lay the blame at the feet of those suffering. They just didn’t follow the rules, or think positively enough. They brought it on themselves.”
― Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing
― Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing
“I learned that love came in finding someone who just let you be yourself.”
― Raising a Rare Girl: A Memoir
― Raising a Rare Girl: A Memoir
“There’s enough mother-shame on this planet to fill oceans with sludge— we don’t need more of it.”
― Raising a Rare Girl: A Memoir
― Raising a Rare Girl: A Memoir
“I only know that learning to believe in the power of my own words has been the most freeing experience of my life. It has brought me the most light. And isn't that what a poem is? A lantern glowing in the dark.”
― The Poet X
― The Poet X
“Sometimes we are joyful because we have known grief. Sometimes we know grief because we have dwelled— for full long days or microcosmic minutes—in the sun-soaked luminescence of joy.”
― Raising a Rare Girl: A Memoir
― Raising a Rare Girl: A Memoir
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