Twenty Quotes

“Sometimes we have what we need right in front of us, but we’re programmed not to let it in.”
― Debra Landwehr Engle, Twenty

“That was when I started seeing her as a human being as well as my mom, and it was the first time I realized that we live many lifetimes within one life. Sometimes we pack up events and relationships and put them on the shelf, pushing them toward the back and closing the door on them.”
― Debra Landwehr Engle, Twenty

“It's hard to believe how life sneaks up on you and accumulates until you don't even know how buried you are in the past, how much it encroaches on the present, and squeezes all the energy out of it.”
― Debra Landwehr Engle, Twenty

“I used to think that forgiveness meant letting someone off the hook, denying that their betrayal hurt my soul. But now I can see forgiveness in a whole new light. I need to forgive myself for expecting this world, my life, to be different from how it is, to arrange itself according to my expectations.”
― Debra Landwehr Engle, Twenty

“This is why we’re in relationships. To remember who we are. To know the love within us rather than the bitterness.”
― Debra Landwehr Engle, Twenty

“Look at death not as an ending but as a sign of continuity... We are all connecting links. And sometimes when we step out of the chain, we allow new connections that could not have happened with us there.”
― Debra Landwehr Engle, Twenty

“Make good decisions, but don’t let your fear stop you.”
― Debra Landwehr Engle, Twenty

“That was the moment. That was the moment when I started to bend his strength against him, to reshape his words and meaning to hurt me since I could never, ever hurt myself enough.”
― Debra Landwehr Engle, Twenty: A Novel