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His whole weak, skinny, urban-ape body is insisting minute by minute on its reality and vulnerability, is demanding that he notice for once that it is more than a container to tote his horrible thoughts around. It’s
“I honed my argumentation skills early and often, growing up in a family and a community that held friendly, even warm conversations at a decibel level that in other cultural contexts means the will is being rewritten as soon as the doors have been slammed.”
― The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You
― The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You
“In the case of families, uncomplicated wasn’t really the goal anyway.”
― Family Family
― Family Family
“Do you really want your life to change, or do you want to remain an asshole with better consequences?”
― I'm Just Happy to Be Here: A Memoir of Renegade Mothering
― I'm Just Happy to Be Here: A Memoir of Renegade Mothering
“India understood at last what it meant to be a parent. She had created this child, loved and nurtured it, coaxed its development, strengthened its heart, and ironed its core. Served as its center and also built her life around it. And now, now she had no choice but to send it into a cruel, unsafe world where she could neither control nor protect”
― Family Family
― Family Family
“Sometimes in their pain, people believe that the agony will last forever. But feelings are actually more like weather systems—they blow in and they blow out. Just because you feel sad this minute or this hour or this day doesn’t mean you’ll feel that way in ten minutes or this afternoon or next week. Everything you feel—anxiety, elation, anguish—blows in and out again.”
― Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
― Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
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Adoption and After Adoption
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