“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.”
“As a Christian, my highest calling is not motherhood; my highest calling is to follow Christ.”
“Whoever had come up with the chant “Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me” had been an idiot.”
“I was always on guard and I was always prepared for him to be upset with me. I had lived feeling uneasy and tense for so long.”
“...it can be so boring being you sometimes, and if you were the most special thing like that, it could be really great, but maybe some people say the same thing about you, and you want to tell those people: 'No, you're stupid, it's no fun being me.”
“Providence is wiser than you, and you may be confident it has suited all things better to your eternal good than you could do had you been left to your own option.”
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