“You count the hours you could have spent with your mother, it's a lifetime in itself.”
― For One More Day
― For One More Day
“Or that I couldn't stand to watch anything bad happen to you, because it was like it was happening to me too. Is that love?”
― Forget You
― Forget You
“I wonder if other mothers feel a tug at their insides, watching their children grow up into the people they themselves wanted so badly to be.”
― Keeping Faith
― Keeping Faith
“And then I remember this morning and I wonder if it really happened or if I dreamed it. It was nice. And weird. And tender. I'm not used to tender. It's a fossil, that word. Conditions changed and it died out. Like the woolly mammoth. It just couldn't live in the same world as dick box. Ho dog. Or wiener cousins.”
― Revolution
― Revolution
“just because you fail once, it doesn't mean you're going to fail at everything. keep trying, hold on, and always, always, always believe in yourself because if you don't, then who will? so keep your head high, keep your chin up, and most importantly, keep smiling because life's a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about.”
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