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“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.” —Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
What should have felt like a slice through me instead felt like a sigh. Yeah, this should hurt more, but it doesn’t. So all I can think about now is the end and the new beginning,
“The longer I live, the more deeply I learn that love—whether we call it friendship or family or romance—is the work of mirroring and magnifying each other’s light.” —James Baldwin, Nothing Personal
“Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.” —bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
When conversing with the heart, expect it to talk back, to revisit the pains and disappointments that left the deepest dents and scratches.
“I’ve come to realize that a woman who wants more and realizes she deserves it is a dangerous thing.”
She loves an undeserving man. It’s a sorrow most women experience at some point in their lives, whether it’s a father who neglects or a son who forgets or a husband who betrays. These men let us down and we pull ourselves back up, hopefully with the help of other women who love us in ways that heal.
“You’ve taken time,” Lola says. “And you’ve done a lot of work on yourself. When are we ever done working on ourselves? I believe wholeness is not a destination, but a lifetime process. Something that instead of waiting for, you could be living for.”
I read that Richard Bach book everyone at the library was raving about. He said what the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly. I know what he meant. When we have hard times, huge changes that seem to be the end of the world as we know it, it’s actually an incubator for metamorphosis. For a new beginning.
Life is always gonna be complicated, but the good stuff is worth fighting for.
I’m the girl who has always loved too hard and offered too much, sometimes to those who didn’t deserve it.
I now realize you can risk loving completely when you completely love yourself.
He’s a miracle in my arms, and I tremble with wonder and awe.
