Samantha’s Reviews > The Daughters of Rosebud > Status Update

The cruelty of love is that it outlives the anger and the suffering and the clawing blame.

If a mother's love inoculates one against the harm the world can so casually throw around, what does a mother's failure to protect do?

I promise myself to live in the now with the people who love me best because time is short.

Sometimes, I'm so preoccupied with my own tragedy, I forget that others also suffer. It's a good reminder that the world is littered with mundane, everyday tragedies. It's a wonder we go on.

Am I the only one who finds stories of teenagers discovering/exploring their sexuality profoundly boring?

Oh, how history repeats itself. Family patterns, even those we have no awareness of, never die.

I read a lot. I think a lot. I feel myself waiting. I just don’t know for what.