But the problem is, once you love someone, you can’t have it all anymore. Love comes with sacrifice. That’s how it works.
“I rarely cry in public anymore. I’ve become a person about which people probably say, “She’s really bounced back quite nicely.” I am lying to them. I have not bounced back nicely. I’ve just learned to impersonate the living.”
― Forever, Interrupted
― Forever, Interrupted
“But then you feel yourself growing stronger in that bed, as if you’re squeezing the tears out of yourself, wringing yourself dry of pain. You imagine yourself bleeding grief, as if the water from your eyes is the pain itself. You imagine it leaving your body and being soaked up by the mattress. You wake up one morning feeling dry and completely empty, so empty that if someone knocked on you, you’d sound hollow. Hollow and empty are terrible ways to feel when you’re used to being full of joy. But it’s not so bad when you’re used to feeling full of pain. Hollow feels okay. Empty feels like a beginning. Which is nice, because for so long you have felt like you were at the end.”
― One True Loves
― One True Loves
“Why don’t you go the surrogacy route?” Each time this was presented, I felt the constant, public prodding to acknowledge my body’s failures.”
― You Got Anything Stronger?: Stories
― You Got Anything Stronger?: Stories
“And you will be okay, you know that? I know you probably don’t think it now, but I’m telling you, one day you’ll look back on this time and think, Thank God it’s over, but I got through it. I’m telling you.”
― Forever, Interrupted
― Forever, Interrupted
“I just wanted you to know that even at almost ninety, I’m still learning new things every day, and I think I am learning now that when you lose the thing you love most in the world, things can’t be okay again.”
― Forever, Interrupted
― Forever, Interrupted
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