The Asylum Confessions: Family Matters (The Asylum Confession Files, #2)

by Jack Steen

I think Death has many faces, many voices, and it all depends on the person you are, and what you've done with your life.

There have to be more farmers than you’d expect who get rid of their unmentionables to their farm animals.

Makes you wonder if the pork you’re eating is safe, doesn’t it?

Eating human-fed pig meat can harm a person in many ways. Prion diseases can be manifested with symptoms of hallucinations, dementia, difficulty walking with muscle soreness, and confusion, among the few.

"The only time you ever see a person's true character, who they really are, is right before they die. Anytime you judge a person before seeing their true self, you're robbing yourself of an opportunity.

If I wasn't someone people came to in the hard times, then I was living my life wrong.

“Oh honey, by the time you reach my age, all you’ll have done is say goodbye. Practice doesn’t make perfect. It never gets easy; you just learn to handle your grief better.”

It doesn't matter what you do with your life, it's how you do it. So even if your existence seems sedentary, isolated, and unadventurous, if you do well with the life you've been given, then it's well-lived.

Life is never that nice. Rarely are you given second chances, real second chances, but when you do, when they present themselves to you…you need to figure out if the strings attached are worth the price.

That’s something no one should ever tell another parent. Never tell someone who grieves that their heart will heal. Never suggest having another baby could replace the one they lost.

If you live with regrets, then you’re not truly living. You’re reacting in order to not live with more regrets.

Wake up each day determined to be the best person you can be. Go to sleep each night knowing you did the absolute best you could and that it’s too late to change actions you’ve already taken.

Determine to be absolute in your decisions, and you’ll never experien...

Regret can destroy dreams, did you know that? When all you do is focus on the things that went wrong in your life, you miss out on wha...

If you’re grieving, you need to let that grief sweep over you, wash over you, as if you were a pebble of sand adrift along the shoreline. Eventually, the strength of the water will pull you in until you are surrounded, and the very grief you thought was drowning you is, instead, supporting you.