Jodie

“Do you know what a conscience is? It’s empathy for other people. It’s looking at your own behavior and seeing the way it harms others. And if nothing bad has ever happened to you yourself, you can’t imagine it happening to anyone else. If you’ve never known pain, you can’t imagine anyone else’s.”
― Marissa Finch, A Friend Like That

“but the question still remains. What does it take for a person to persist from one time to another—to continue existing rather than cease to exist? Once upon a time I would have said loathing. That’s how you keep someone alive. You keep them in your head and you hate them till you can’t stand it anymore and still you gnaw at them and watch them grow. But now I don’t know, and I don’t care. I’m done with all that. I’m blessed with the people I love. I’m one of the lucky ones.”
― Natalie Barelli, The Housekeeper

“We have learned that when people ask how any of us are doing, and when they really listen to the answer, with an open heart and mind, the load of grief often becomes lighter – for all of us. In being invited to share our pain, together we take the first steps toward healing.”
― Kennedy Kerr, Secrets of Magpie Cove

“When you pour everything you have into a belief, letting it go is like killing a part of yourself, even when you know it’s the only way to survive.”
― Jamie Beck, If You Must Know