“You try as a parent. You love beyond reason. You fight beyond endurance. You hope beyond despair.
You never think, until the very last moment, that it still might not be enough.”
“Parents think the worst thing that can happen to their five-year-old is cancer. They’re wrong; the worst thing that can happen to their five-year-old is mental illness.”
“Kendinize ait parçalar vardır, sayısız parçalar, bunları bir kez feda ederseniz bir daha asla yerine koyamazsınız.”
“I want to cry but I don’t. I don’t. There are pieces of yourself, so many pieces of yourself, that, once you give away, you cannot get back again.”
“All happy families are alike, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way’?” “Anna Karenina.”
“Being at the easternmost edge of the time zone, Massachusetts has one of the first sunrises in the country.”
“A child’s bonds with his or her mother are extremely powerful, so any negativity in the mother is being communicated to the child.”
“Alex said, his voice subdued, tense. “So it would seem,” D.D.”
“I admit to the jealousy. If you ever allow someone else to touch you, I will kill him, Jessie. I will tear him apart. Do you understand me?”
“As rumor had said, he found several corpses strewn carelessly about the floor. Since the glow of the light was feeble, he could not count the number. He could only see that some were naked and others clothed. Some of them were women, and all were lolling on the floor with their mouths open or their arms outstretched showing no more signs of life than so many clay dolls. One would doubt they had ever been alive, so eternally silent they were.”
“I fancy I only got a rap on the head, which knocked me stupid.”
“Does anybody look better in rags than me?”
“You need a reason to be sad. You don’t need a reason to be happy.”
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