Jenni

“I’ll tell them all the good things and some difficulties. The parents may never accept what happened to them and yet accept their child. They’re two separate things, the parental loss, and the actual person they will almost always end up loving.”
― Andrew Solomon, Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity

“Treating an identity as an illness invites real illness to make a braver stand.”
― Andrew Solomon, Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity

“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. —Frederick Douglass”
― Timber Hawkeye, Buddhist Boot Camp