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“Strength-real strength- is not doing what someone asks you, necessarily. Strength is turning up every day to a situation that is intolerable, unbearable even, just to support the people you love. Strength is being in that terrible room hour after hour even though every cell in your body is telling you it’s too much for you to cope with.”

“Maybe you have to think about all the things about your old life that you didn’t enjoy and say, ‘okay, so here is an opportunity to start again. Perfect freedom. No ties. Maybe this is the dream.’ Maybe one day you will be even happier than you were.”

“I feel like fucking Cinderella. Except the Ugly Sister has got my fucking dress, my pumpkins, the fucking blind mice and the whole lot”

I’m cackling. This rich bitch is such an amusing character contrast to the other main character (who is equally as lovable).

“You must believe that if God allowed you to survive this far-there is a purpose to it. You must believe that there is work left for you to do on this Earth before you are released to peace.”

“instead, that life just kind of happened to me, and now there are some when this beautiful home is a little like a gilded cage.”

I can’t possibly put this down. It’s too good.

“We can’t spend our lives hanging out under someone else’s umbrella and then complain that we’re getting wet.“

“Freedom is about CHOICE- about choosing compassion, humor, optimism, intuition, curiosity, and self- expression. And to be free is to live in the present.”

“We will all have unpleasant experiences in our lives, we will make mistakes, we won’t always get what we want. This is part of being human. The problem- and the foundation of our persistent suffering- is the belief that discomfort, mistakes, disappointment signals something about our worth. The belief that the unpleasant things in our lives are all we deserve.”

“Now that I’ve faced myself a little more fully, I can see that the emptiness I felt wasn’t a sign of something wrong, it was the void I carry with me, even now, the void that no relationship or achievement will ever fill. Nothing will ever make up for the loss and no one else is responsible for my freedom, I am.”

“And if I can keep the noise and urgency around me at all times, I will not have to be alone for even a moment with my own thoughts”

“It’s another momentous occasion that they miss, another happy day made less so by their absence. But I am pregnant and my life is full and I will not let sorrow pull me down”

“ It isn’t my own loss that hurts. It’s the way it ripples out into the future. The way it perpetuates.”

“Survival is black and white, no “butts” can intrude when you are fighting for your life. Now they “butts” come rushing in.”

“We cannot choose to have a life free of hurt. But we can choose to be free, to escape the past, no matter what befalls us, and to embrace the possible.”

What a wonderful book!
Read to our 5 & 3 year old.
It kept their attention for several chapter and left them BEGGING to hear more.
It is great at keeping it fun and interesting with easy understanding for young readers.
We can’t wait to see what HUGE item Gram found at the dig site!