Jessica Sorensen · 404 pages
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“There is something about someone trusting you enough with their secrets that it makes it easier to trust them. It’s like they’re opening their heart and in return yours should open up to them, too.”
― Jessica Sorensen, quote from The Redemption of Callie & Kayden
“But I trusted him once and I decide to do it again. I just pray to God he doesn’t shove me down and break me, because I’m already in too many pieces and I just don’t know how much more breaking I can take.”
― Jessica Sorensen, quote from The Redemption of Callie & Kayden
“Maybe if I try hard enough, we'll fall into each other and become one single person and we can share our pain instead of carrying it by ourselves.”
― Jessica Sorensen, quote from The Redemption of Callie & Kayden
“How am I supposed to move forward in life when everything important to me is motionless?”
― Jessica Sorensen, quote from The Redemption of Callie & Kayden
“I'm just here,existing at the surface of the water,not quite drowning but not quite able to breathe.”
― Jessica Sorensen, quote from The Redemption of Callie & Kayden
“Sometimes the best things are the ones that aren’t planned, the decisions made while living in the moment.”
― Jessica Sorensen, quote from The Redemption of Callie & Kayden
“No, but I've never been one for wise ideas," he says. "I believe in irrational, fleeting decisions that keep life interesting. And life needs to be interesting because we've got only one of them to live.”
― Jessica Sorensen, quote from The Redemption of Callie & Kayden
“People are running to and from class and I just want to yell, Slow down and wait for the world to catch up!”
― Jessica Sorensen, quote from The Redemption of Callie & Kayden
“I wished for happiness in a world full of sorrow”
― Jessica Sorensen, quote from The Redemption of Callie & Kayden
“I need to wake up and believe that everything is okay instead if hoping it will be. I want to be one of the lucky ones who has a good life." I nod I want that for her too. "you can still get that. just tell me what makes you happy." she looks at me tears streaming down her cheek "you”
― Jessica Sorensen, quote from The Redemption of Callie & Kayden
“I believe in irrational, fleeting decisions that keep life interesting. And life needs to be interesting because we’ve got only one of them to live”
― Jessica Sorensen, quote from The Redemption of Callie & Kayden
“He tastes like mint and need, as he overpowers me with his tongue.”
― Jessica Sorensen, quote from The Redemption of Callie & Kayden
“I think that sometimes people misinterpret understand and acceptance and make it into something that it isn't.”
― Jessica Sorensen, quote from The Redemption of Callie & Kayden
“I can’t go back through time and change things, but I can move forward and create the life I want.”
― Jessica Sorensen, quote from The Redemption of Callie & Kayden
“If I could wish for one thing, it would be that I could always feel this way, completely and blissfully consumed by someone else.”
― Jessica Sorensen, quote from The Redemption of Callie & Kayden
“There's this connection, this understand that we are two people who have been fractured, not by ourselves but by someone else and we're doing everything we can to not shatter to pieces.”
― Jessica Sorensen, quote from The Redemption of Callie & Kayden
“Yo creo en las decisiones irracionales, fugaces, que hacen que la vida sea interesante. Y la vida tiene que ser interesante, ya que tenemos sólo una de ellas para vivir.”
― Jessica Sorensen, quote from The Redemption of Callie & Kayden
“A veces las mejores cosas son las que no están previstas, las decisiones tomadas mientras vivimos el momento.”
― Jessica Sorensen, quote from The Redemption of Callie & Kayden
“Kayden can’t love me because he doesn’t understand love. He understands pain and hurt and disappointment, but not love. I know right then that I can’t tell him how I’m feeling, but I can show him.”
― Jessica Sorensen, quote from The Redemption of Callie & Kayden
“Sure, I trusted Kayden to see all of me, but I’m uncertain about the world, because it’s big and scary and always shifting. One minute it feels like home and the next, distant and unfamiliar.”
― Jessica Sorensen, quote from The Redemption of Callie & Kayden
“Yes, I went through a lot of pain, heartache,breaking. But I'm here berthing and my heart is beating. I'm thriving. I'm not alone. And I'm loved.”
― Jessica Sorensen, quote from The Redemption of Callie & Kayden
“She deserves better than the piece of shit I am.”
― Jessica Sorensen, quote from The Redemption of Callie & Kayden
“Deseo la felicidad en un mundo de dolor.”
― Jessica Sorensen, quote from The Redemption of Callie & Kayden
“Just tell me what you need to make you happy." "You.”
― Jessica Sorensen, quote from The Redemption of Callie & Kayden
“Aprieto mis brazos a su alrededor, sellándonos juntos en todas las formas posibles. Tal vez si me esfuerzo lo suficiente, encajaremos el uno con el otro y nos convertiremos en una sola persona y podamos compartir nuestro dolor en lugar de llevarlo por nosotros mismos.”
― Jessica Sorensen, quote from The Redemption of Callie & Kayden
“And life needs to be interesting because we've only got one of them to live.”
― Jessica Sorensen, quote from The Redemption of Callie & Kayden
“I'd been holding the dress up to myself and gazing at my reflection in the store's mirror. "Seth, this is just a party. And it's definitely not a dress Cinderella would wear."
"Then be Callierella," he said with a wink. "Or Calliepunzel and you can lock yourself in your bedroom until Kayden begs for you to let him in."
I had snorted a laugh. "Are you drunk? I mean, I know you had a margarita at lunch, but it usually takes a lot more for you to get tipsy."
"I'm not drunk," he said, snatching the dress from my hand. "I'm just trying to give you the fairy-tale you deserve."
"Life isn't a fairy-tale," I replied. But in the end, I bought the dress, kind of wishing it was.”
― Jessica Sorensen, quote from The Redemption of Callie & Kayden
“- Nunca te guardes cosas, no es saludable.
- Si eso es cierto, entonces soy la persona menos saludable del mundo.”
― Jessica Sorensen, quote from The Redemption of Callie & Kayden
“Yo estaba allí, existiendo en la superficie del agua, no ahogándome, pero sin ser capaz de respirar.”
― Jessica Sorensen, quote from The Redemption of Callie & Kayden
“By discouraging saving and encouraging consumption, accelerating inflation had stimulated output and employment”
― Niall Ferguson, quote from The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
“Loneliness is the most severe punishment. We are not built to handle it. I”
― Jan-Philipp Sendker, quote from A Well-Tempered Heart
“Then it hits me. I was just in a pissing contest with my dog. There are no words.”
― Samantha Towle, quote from Trouble
“The best way to get a handle on the subject would be to ask the experts, but one does not simply walk into a church or synagogue and ask to speak with a demonologist. There are not that many of them; their names are confidential, and they are obliged to report their experiences only to their superiors. Even Ed Warren will not tell all about these horrendous black spirits that come in the night bearing messages and proclamations of blasphemy. When pressed on the matter, in fact, Ed’s reply is: “There are things known to priests and myself that are best left unsaid.” Upon what, then, does Ed Warren base his opinions? Is there proper evidence or corroboration to substantiate his claims? “People who aren’t familiar with the phenomenon sometimes ask me if I’m not involved in a sort of ultrarealistic hallucination, like Don Quixote jousting with windmills. Well, hallucinations are visionary experiences. This, on the other hand, is a phenomenon that hits back. My knowledge of the subject is no different than that of learned clergymen, and they’ll tell you as plainly as I will that this isn’t something to be easily checked off as a bad dream. “I can support everything I say with bona fide evidence,” Ed goes on, “and testimony by credible witnesses and blue-ribbon professionals. There is no conjecture involved here. My statements about the nature of the demonic spirit are based on my own firsthand experiences over thirty years in this work, backed up by the experiences of other recognized demonologists, plus the experiences of the exorcist clergy, plus the testimony of hundreds of witnesses who’ve been these spirits’ victims, plus the full weight of hard physical evidence. Theological dogma about the demonic simply proves consistent with my own findings about these spirits in real life. But let me be more specific. “The inhuman spirit often identifies itself as the devil and then—through physical or psychological means—proves itself to be just that. Again speaking from my own personal experiences, I have been burned by these invisible forces of pandemonium. I have been slashed and cut; these spirits have gouged marks and symbols on my body. I’ve been thrown around the room like a toy. My arms have been twisted up behind me until they’ve ached for a week. I’ve incurred sudden illnesses to knock me out of an investigation. Physicalized monstrosities have manifested before me, threatening death,”
― quote from The Demonologist: The Extraordinary Career of Ed and Lorraine Warren
“You don't go through things with people and not love them for it. It's like those guys in the army who fight in muddy trenches and drag each other out of harm's way and are blood brothers for life because of it all. Only in our case, my mom and I face eviction notices and power shutoffs together.”
― Lara Zielin, quote from The Waiting Sky
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