Oxygen Quotes

“Tears of grief are unique. They contain chemicals that aren't found in the more mundane droplets of moisture that bathe the eyes, as if our tears wash us free of some noxious cause of sorrow.”
― Carol Cassella, Oxygen

“But love isn't a career. It isn't a degree you earn or a formula you pull out of a textbook. It's bumpy and blotched and painful and completely irreplaceable. Aren't there times when it might be better to let go? Sometimes the best part of life grows out of what you have no say over.”
― Carol Cassella, Oxygen

“Your lover should be your best friend.... Love can be a choice as much as an accident.”
― Carol Cassella, Oxygen

“Some things don’t ever get settled. You just make a place for them. Learn to let them sit there with you, side by side with the good.”
― Carol Cassella, Oxygen

“when do we stop crying over our injuries? when we get old enough to swallow our tears, or when the people we love stop responding to our cries of pain??”
― Carol Cassella, Oxygen

“Înmormântările sunt evenimente unde bogăția, puterea și statutul social se resemnează în fața sorții care ne face pe toți egali.”
― Carol Cassella, Oxygen

“După o anumită vârstă, fiecare dintre noi poartă chipul pe care îl merită.”
― Carol Cassella, Oxygen

“Unele lucruri nu se rezolvă niciodată. Doar le faci loc în viața ta. Înveți să le lași să stea cu tine, lângă cele bune.”
― Carol Cassella, Oxygen

“There is no impending moment, no past moment, only this one, and without past there is no sorrow, and without furture there can be no loss.”
― Carol Cassella, Oxygen

“Survival through denial. Works every time.”
― Carol Cassella, Oxygen

“It is not even gray outside when I wake up. Joe lies next to me beneath the sheet, the crest of his shoulder dropping to the deep cleft of his waist, the rising slope of his hip and thigh like a landscape—a continent of a man, solid enough to sow and reap a crop of progeny and personal hope. And isn’t that what it takes to make love last? Taking the risk to say this may be all but this can be enough? Yielding to the finiteness of what is really possible? Declaring that this will be my allotted plot of earth to till and harvest over the startlingly short course of my life?”
― Carol Cassella, Oxygen

“E uimitor cum un lucru atât de nefiresc poate treptat să se piardă în fundalul vieții de zi cu zi atât de complet, încât cruzimea sa nu mai e flagrantă. Cei mai buni dintre noi sunt capabili să aleagă ce vedem și ce ignorăm. N-ar exista nicio scuză, dar ar fi o alegere conștientă.”
― Carol Cassella, Oxygen

“Suntem atât de orbiți de tot ce e în jurul nostru încât nu pricepem nimic. E foarte complicat să crezi. Cât trăim avem cinci simțuri. Cred că după ce murim avem, poate... milioane. Sau miliarde.”
― Carol Cassella, Oxygen

“Dragostea nu e o carieră. Nu e o diplomă pe care o câștigi sau o formulă pe care o iei dintr-un manual. E plină de obstacole, cu bune, cu rele, dureroasă și de neînlocuit. Nu există momente când ar fi mai bine să te lași purtat de val? Uneori, cea mai frumoasă parte din viață se naște atunci când pierzi controlul.”
― Carol Cassella, Oxygen

“she didn’t know for sure if there was a heaven or a hell, or whether we had to earn eternal life. But she did know that if heaven exists, we get there by being as kind to one another as we can be. And if there isn’t a God, then what matters most is that we are as kind to one another as we can be. I”
― Carol Cassella, Oxygen

“The completely profound senselessness of my own existence explodes into it's own blissful freedom. There is no impending moment, no past moment, only this one, and without past there is no sorrow, and without future there can be no loss.”
― Carol Cassella, Oxygen

“When do we stop crying over our own injuries? When we get old enough to swallow our tears, or when the people we love stop responding to our cries of pain?”
― Carol Cassella, Oxygen

“Death might be a blessing if it means you never have to face this kind of grief.”
― Carol Cassella, Oxygen

“It is amazing, though, what pains your subconscious will undergo in achieve sustainable peace.”
― Carol Cassella, Oxygen

“But love isn’t a career. It isn’t a degree you earn or a formula you pull out of a textbook. It’s bumpy and blotched and painful and completely irreplaceable. Aren’t there times when it might be better to let go? Sometimes the best part of life grows out of what you have no say over.”
― Carol Cassella, Oxygen