Stories We Never Told Quotes

“If you fall in love with life itself, happiness is yours for as long as you live. The best thing about this trust? Hard as it may be to find, and to hold on to, anyone can have it.”
― Sonja Yoerg, Stories We Never Told

“If you fall in love with life itself, happiness is yours for as long as you live.”
― Sonja Yoerg, Stories We Never Told

“night, when the house was quiet, Jackie saw the pain for what it was: the dousing of the tiny flame of hope she had not known she was carrying.”
― Sonja Yoerg, Stories We Never Told

“Jackie’s standard response to flirtation was to pretend she didn’t understand it for what it was, then make excuses. Men had to lay siege to her defenses before she would consider them head-on, and most men, thank God, didn’t have the energy. She wasn’t playing hard to get; she didn’t want to be got,”
― Sonja Yoerg, Stories We Never Told

“The pain we carry, Jackie thinks. Everything we do not say, everything we bury deep, shapes and controls us, in the best and the worst ways.”
― Sonja Yoerg, Stories We Never Told

“A huge cognitive milestone for a child is the ability to take someone else’s perspective, to imagine herself in another person’s shoes. Before the”
― Sonja Yoerg, Stories We Never Told

“But marriage and children are not an add-on configuration to work. It’s a zero-sum game. The circle of time and energy is finite; slice the pie however you wish, but something gets smaller as something else gets bigger.”
― Sonja Yoerg, Stories We Never Told

“Isn’t that what love is, the belief that you exist in the private world of someone else’s mind as a beautiful, cherished being? Perhaps that’s the problem with love: it’s unverifiable.”
― Sonja Yoerg, Stories We Never Told

“We are frail, propped up by hope, leaning against each other like reeds.”
― Sonja Yoerg, Stories We Never Told

“Jackie is out of crackers.”
― Sonja Yoerg, Stories We Never Told

“Being true to yourself is noble, but other people’s lies can cripple you whether you are self-actualized or not. All it takes is a little misplaced trust, a scrap of faith made of white cloth.”
― Sonja Yoerg, Stories We Never Told

“The circle of time and energy is finite; slice the pie however you wish, but something gets smaller as something else gets bigger.”
― Sonja Yoerg, Stories We Never Told