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Desperate Times, Desperate Pleasures Paperback #Giveaway
If you’ve been to the bookstore lately, you’ll notice a trend. In the romance section, typical man-chest, photo-realistic covers still exist but are increasingly being replaced by illustrated covers. There’s a real subset of readers who are tired of racier covers or gravitate to illustrations or object-related covers.
My sister would be one of them, and she recently asked if I’d consider putting o
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They say that a person’s personality is the sum of their experiences. But that isn’t true, at least not entirely, because if our past was all that defined us, we’d never be able to put up with ourselves. We need to be allowed to convince ourselves that we’re more than the mistakes we made yesterday. That we are all of our next choices, too, all of our tomorrows.
If people aren't allowed to think that things will get better, including themselves getting better, I think most of us would just dig a hole and crawl into it. Most of the people I've known who've made really sad and dangerous decisions about their lives have done it because they've lost their sense of tomorrow.
I hope you enjoyed these annotations. The paperback edition of ANXIOUS PEOPLE is out on 7/6:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56269734-anxious-people
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“We can’t change the world, and a lot of the time we can’t even change people. No more than one bit at a time. So we do what we can to help whenever we get the chance, sweetheart. We save those we can. We do our best. Then we try to find a way to convince ourselves that that will just have to… be enough. So we can live with our failures without drowning.”
"Enough" is probably, as I get older, one of the most powerful words I know. Try saying it to anyone you know when they're having a really tough day: "You know what? You've done enough. I can see how hard you're trying and no one can ask you for anything more. You've done enough." They'll start crying, every time.
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Addicts are addicted to their drugs, and their families are addicted to hope.
It's a horrible thing, but hope is really all you have as a relative. You can't fix anything, but you can't leave. Love won't let you. So the only thing you can do in the end is to stand there and wait and hope. I have a hard time imagining anything that would make you feel less powerful, and I have a pretty good imagination.
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“Women are still in emotional bondage as long as we need to worry that we might have to make a choice between being heard and being loved.”
― A Woman's Worth
― A Woman's Worth
“Mothers have martyred themselves in their children’s names since the beginning of time. We have lived as if she who disappears the most, loves the most. We have been conditioned to prove our love by slowly ceasing to exist.
What a terrible burden for children to bear—to know that they are the reason their mother stopped living. What a terrible burden for our daughters to bear—to know that if they choose to become mothers, this will be their fate, too. Because if we show them that being a martyr is the highest form of love, that is what they will become. They will feel obligated to love as well as their mothers loved, after all. They will believe they have permission to live only as fully as their mothers allowed themselves to live.
If we keep passing down the legacy of martyrdom to our daughters, with whom does it end? Which woman ever gets to live? And when does the death sentence begin? At the wedding altar? In the delivery room? Whose delivery room—our children’s or our own? When we call martyrdom love we teach our children that when love begins, life ends. This is why Jung suggested: There is no greater burden on a child than the unlived life of a parent.”
― Untamed
What a terrible burden for children to bear—to know that they are the reason their mother stopped living. What a terrible burden for our daughters to bear—to know that if they choose to become mothers, this will be their fate, too. Because if we show them that being a martyr is the highest form of love, that is what they will become. They will feel obligated to love as well as their mothers loved, after all. They will believe they have permission to live only as fully as their mothers allowed themselves to live.
If we keep passing down the legacy of martyrdom to our daughters, with whom does it end? Which woman ever gets to live? And when does the death sentence begin? At the wedding altar? In the delivery room? Whose delivery room—our children’s or our own? When we call martyrdom love we teach our children that when love begins, life ends. This is why Jung suggested: There is no greater burden on a child than the unlived life of a parent.”
― Untamed
“A broken family is a family in which any member must break herself into pieces to fit in. A whole family is one in which each member can bring her full self to the table knowing that she will always be both held and free.”
― Untamed
― Untamed
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Hi! Happy to reconnect here. :) I use that question because for a while, I was getting random requests, but I'm always happy to add friends.
Totally understand!