More on this book
Community
Kindle Notes & Highlights
“That the end of loneliness is when someone needs you.”
“No act done for someone else is ever wasted.”
This is the disarming power of children: their need makes you forget your own.
First loves often remain in the heart, like plants that cannot grow in sunlight.
ALL CHILDREN KEEP SECRETS. All parents do the same. We mold the version we want others to believe, boosting the disguise and tucking away the truth. It is how we can be loved by our closest family members and still, at times, elude them.
Love is not revenge.
Forcing love is like picking a flower then insisting that it grow.”
“Just because you see things straight doesn’t mean you see them in time.”
We don’t realize who else we punish while we’re punishing ourselves.”
their relationship running on inertia, a lack of better options making it easier to continue than quit.
Once the baby has a name, he is real. And once he is real, he is really gone.
“Secrets. We think by keeping them, we’re controlling things, but all the while, they’re controlling us.”
“We can recall the exact day we got hurt, but who remembers the day the wound was gone?
“That’s how salvation works. The wrongs we do open doors to do right.”
feeling utterly full and utterly vacant, which is what having and losing a child is like.
But there are so many times our lives are altered invisibly. The flip of a pencil, from written to erased.
