“Kids know more than you give them credit for,” he said sadly. “After that, I promised I’d listen to the kids, take more time to listen to my gut.”
“One of the hardest things about recovery is coming to terms with the fact that you can’t trust your brain anymore.”
― Hidden Pictures
― Hidden Pictures
“Defensiveness inhabits the place where empathy used to live.”
― On a Quiet Street
― On a Quiet Street
“when there were enough bad things all around you, the only choice was to move to the least bad thing.”
― Such Quiet Girls
― Such Quiet Girls
“I didn’t need a shrink. I needed help growing taller.” I sit even straighter. “I’d been brought down but I wanted to stand up again.”
― Grouch-ish
― Grouch-ish
“Everyone hopes their children will turn into some better version of themselves. It’s why we search for ourselves in their tiny features when they’re newborns.”
― The Amendment
― The Amendment
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