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“With no loss or sacrifice, we can appreciate what we have. “

“Time is not something you give back. The very next moment may be an answer to your prayer. To deny that is to deny the most important part of your future. What’s that? Hope,.”

“We all yearn for what we have lost. But sometimes, we forget what we have.” Pg 102

“God will not forget you. But I was not thinking of such distant provisions.”

“ worrying does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.” Corrie ten Boom

Courageous memoir of childhood abuse. Such horrific and sad memories but absolutely amazing how therapy, EMDR and support can provide such a breakthrough to healing.

“And you won’t be gone. No one is ever truly gone.”

“The basic function of a parent is just to exist. You have to be there, like ballast in a boat, because otherwise your child capsizes"

“The most dangerous place on earth is inside of us”.

“You can’t love someone out of addiction. All the oceans are the tears of those who have tried”

Everyone’s life looks fun on social media; that’s the sorcery of it. Your soul may be slowly decaying, but there’s a filter for that.

Loved the character development. What an incredible story!

“Patsy, suffering strengthens our constitutions and builds inner fortifications so that we never fall prey the same agony twice. We must take upon ourselves, a smaller evil to defend against the greater evil. We must take upon ourselves, a smaller pain in order to survive.”

“There can be no greater intoxication, no purer feeling, than the moment when you meet your child after all the months of wondering and hoping and dreaming.”

“Can I say something?”, Gabriel asks. “I’m sorry.” …”You’re right. …”The truth is. I’m scared of her sometimes. She can be so cruel when she wants to be. I should have protected you. Forgive me.”

“There can be no greater intoxication, no purer feeling, than the moment when you meet your child after all the months of wondering and hoping and dreaming.”

“ I know you know this, but I want to repeat that when someone(s) treats you poorly, it is a reflection of him or herself and the misery within the heart of them. It doesn’t help a bit to hear that when you’re young, but later it will.”

“But the measure of a man, of a life, of a union of man and wife or even country is not in the falling. It's in the rising back up again to repair what's broken, to put right what's wrong.”

When someone(s) treats you poorly, it is a reflection of him or herself and the misery within the heart of them.

I know you think of me as your mother only, but please remember, inside I am also just a girl.

“ I didn't know it was happiness at the time, because it felt like busyness and exhaustion and financial stress and self doubt.”

“A smart judge once told me that every time he hears a lawyer utter the words ‘with all due respect’ in his conversation, he suspects that what the lawyer is really saying is he considers himself the smartest person in the room and everyone else is as dumb as horse excrement@ pg 10

to understand fully is to forgive

to understand fully is to forgive

to understand fully is to forgive

to understand fully is to forgive

to understand fully is to forgive

“To understand fully is to forgive.”

to understand fully is to forgive