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“These are troubled kids, honey. We have to be prepared for unfortunate outcomes, even tragic ones, because as sad as it is, we get some of them too late. We do what we can, but not all of them want help. Admitting that doesn’t make us heartless. It makes us professionals.”
“For most of us, there’s someone—one person—whose soul we know as well as our own. The one we’re meant for. The one who’s meant for us. We know it the minute we meet them. We feel it. A recognition we sense in our bones. And it never goes away .
when you’re fed a constant drip of hell and damnation, it’s hard not to believe it’s just a little bit true.”
“A burden shared is a burden halved.
This is the business of dying well. The sorting out of what’s worth the fight and what’s not. The peeling off of old resentments. The laying down of arms. It’s a time of reckoning, of balancing our books and paying those we owe. But when done well, with clear eyes and an open heart, we learn to cherish those last precious days, and perhaps even to be grateful. We realize at long last that life in this world is finite, and with our wicks beginning to burn low, we cast about for other sources of light. For memory and meaning. For love stripped of need or wound. Pure, perfected, peaceful. This is
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That’s the thing about seeing people stripped of their pride—it humanizes them in ways we’re often not prepared for. We suddenly see our sameness, our connection, our ties. And once seen, they can never be unseen.
Motherhood doesn’t come with a set of instructions. Sometimes, the box arrives damaged and some of the pieces are missing.
“It’s just funny the things we believe when we’re kids. We take them as gospel because we don’t know any better. Then we grow up and we find out it isn’t the way we thought at all—that nothing is. Things are always falling apart, and most of the time there’s nothing we can do about any of it.”
A god who keeps score never seemed quite right to me.
