Do You Still Talk to Grandma? Quotes

“Forgiveness is not a single moment ... it's active, ongoing. A big part of forgiveness is what is happening and continues to happen in us when we are able to enter back into situations or places or settings that caused us harm ... Even with suspicion and moving slowly, it's forgiveness. It's the part of us that is willing to believe that just because one thing hurts, that does not mean all things will.”
― Brit Barron, Do You Still Talk to Grandma?: When the Problematic People in Our Lives Are the Ones We Love

“The joy does not cancel out the pain; the grief does not cancel out the hope.”
― Brit Barron, Do You Still Talk to Grandma?: When the Problematic People in Our Lives Are the Ones We Love

“Release the project at eighty percent; we need you to.”
― Brit Barron, Do You Still Talk to Grandma?: When the Problematic People in Our Lives Are the Ones We Love

“My job is not to reconcile these two realities, or to force a contrived equality between them. All that I can do is allow them both to exist. The grief is there, the hope is there, and so are the anger and sadness, and the joy and pride.”
― Brit Barron, Do You Still Talk to Grandma?: When the Problematic People in Our Lives Are the Ones We Love

“We can hold complexity. We can live well even knowing that there is no ultimate security that exists in our world, that there is no overcoming our unknowing”
― Brit Barron, Do You Still Talk to Grandma?: When the Problematic People in Our Lives Are the Ones We Love

“We need conversations, and we need not to be so quick to cut people from our lives. We need less standing on the right side of the line and more realizing it’s not actually a line, but a complex web we have to navigate and tend together”
― Brit Barron, Do You Still Talk to Grandma?: When the Problematic People in Our Lives Are the Ones We Love