I choose to believe that all things come from the same place when life begins. I have hope that they return to the same place when it ends.
“We are so old, we have become young again.”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
“Fire can warm or consume, water can quench or drown, wind can caress or cut. And so it is with human relationships: we can both create and destroy, nurture and terrorize, traumatize and heal each other.”
― The Boy Who Was Raised As a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook
― The Boy Who Was Raised As a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook
“Surprisingly, it is often when wandering through the emotional carnage left by the worst of humankind that we find the best of humanity as well.”
― The Boy Who Was Raised As a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook
― The Boy Who Was Raised As a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook
“having a child, I thought, was something you should actively want, crave, even. It was not a venture for the ambivalent or passionless.”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
“All the most terrifying ifs involve people. All the good ones do as well.”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
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