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

by Jack Steen

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

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.

When you live a lie, you have to be prepared to fully embrace your truth. Have you ever had to adopt a truth you knew to be a lie, Jack? We all lie. Oh, come on, Jack. You know what I’m talking about: those little lies that we want others to believe to be the truth. You would call them little white lies, but they’re lies all the same. They’re not always life-altering things.