Ms. Annie said all God’s children have to take a shit, but you’d never know it from the way they treat the ones that clean it up.
“The pain. It’s worth it. The more you love, the more it hurts. But it’s worth it. It’s the only thing that is.”
― Where the Lost Wander
― Where the Lost Wander
“You know the worst thing about a man hitting you?” Margery said finally. “Ain’t the hurt. It’s that in that instant you realize the truth of what it is to be a woman. That it don’t matter how smart you are, how much better at arguing, how much better than them, period. It’s when you realize they can always just shut you up with a fist. Just like that.”
― The Giver of Stars
― The Giver of Stars
“Our grief must be defeated; it must not become our master, and make us ineffective, and put us even deeper into the ditch.”
― Lincoln in the Bardo
― Lincoln in the Bardo
“(Perhaps, I thought, this is faith: to believe our God ever receptive to the smallest good intention.)”
― Lincoln in the Bardo
― Lincoln in the Bardo
“When you married someone, you promised to love every person he would be. He promised to love every person she had been. And here they were, still trying, even though the past and the future were both mysteries.”
― The Vanishing Half
― The Vanishing Half
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