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I’m not going to spend my life as the woman who looks the other way.”
While he’s doing what he wants to, you’re doing what you want to. No harm, no foul.”
“Friends don’t let friends stay at cheap motels while they are having major life crises.”
“There is nothing like a Southern sky,”
He knew more than anyone that I had to do something to pull myself out of the murky puddle of depression I’d been living in.
“This is the craziest damn thing I’ve ever heard.
We fill up those empty parts of each other and make each other better.”
SOUTHERN MOTHERS MUST MEDDLE. IT is in our DNA.
If high hopes are all that comes out of this, that’s enough.”
To watch the person you love more than yourself suffer is hell on earth.
could never play second fiddle to a dead woman.
I’m not a problem to be solved. Sometimes I just want to vent and feel understood.
He was quick to anger, but he was also quick to forgive, thank God.
maybe some things are meant to fade, maybe some things have to fade in order for us to quit feeling trapped.
don’t let what you lost keep you from what you could have.
Life is short. Love is precious, and it makes living so worthwhile.”
the way we treat people is really all we have.
What was the fun of even knowing a secret in the first place if you didn’t have a best friend to tell?
I wanted her to find a man who could love her the way she deserved to be loved.
I’m her mother, and I know best.
“It’s the things you don’t do that you’ll regret, darling.”
“It is the things we don’t do that keep us up at night, that ruin our lives, that descend us straight into madness.”
You live the life that you want to live.
Who do you want to be? Decide now. And then go out and get it. Decide your own future before someone—or something—decides it for you.
life and relationships are all about compromise.
no matter how my life played out, I was who I was born to be. I was enough.
