Darling Rose Gold Quotes

“The debt between a child and her mother could never be repaid, like running a foot race against someone fifteen miles ahead of you. What hope did you have of catching up? It didn't matter how many Mother's Day cards you drew, how many cliches and vows of devotions you put inside them. You could tell her she was your favorite parent, wink like you were co-conspirators, fill her in on every trivial detail of your life. None of it was enough. It had taken me years to figure this out: you would never love your mother as much as she loved you. She had formed memories of you since you were a poppy seed in her belly. You didn't begin making your own memories until three, four, five years old? She'd had a running start. She had known you before you even existed. How could we compete with that? We couldn't. We accepted that our mothers held their love over us, let them parade it around like a flashy trinket, because their love was superior to ours.”
― Stephanie Wrobel, Darling Rose Gold

“It was easier to manipulate someone if they didn’t perceive you as a threat.”
― Stephanie Wrobel, Darling Rose Gold

“That’s what separates the sane from the not: knowing madness is an option but declining to choose it.”
― Stephanie Wrobel, Darling Rose Gold

“The bond between a mother and daughter is sacred. You know better than anyone that no matter how awful they are, we still find it in our hearts to love them.”
― Stephanie Wrobel, Darling Rose Gold

“Because that’s what mothers do. We shelter the hardest truths from our children to keep them safe. We take the hit so they don’t have to feel the pain.”
― Stephanie Wrobel, Darling Rose Gold

“I was beginning to think there were worse things than loneliness–like unwanted company.”
― Stephanie Wrobel, Darling Rose Gold

“Most people font like holding on to anger. They feel it crushing and consuming them, so they let it go. They try to forget the ways they’ve been wronged.
But some of us cannot forget and will never forgive. We keep our axes sharp, ready to grind. We hold pleas for mercy between our teeth like jawbreakers.
They say a grudge is a heavy thing to carry.
Good thing we’re extra strong.”
― Stephanie Wrobel, Darling Rose Gold

“So much can be achieved by listening.”
― Stephanie Wrobel, Darling Rose Gold

“They say a grudge is a heavy thing to carry. Good thing we’re extra strong.”
― Stephanie Wrobel, Darling Rose Gold

“But some of us cannot forget and will never forgive. We keep our axes sharp, ready to grind. We hold pleas for mercy between our teeth like jawbreakers.”
― Stephanie Wrobel, Darling Rose Gold

“The debt between a child and her mother could never be repaid, like running a foot race against someone fifteen miles ahead of you. What hope did you have of catching up?”
― Stephanie Wrobel, Darling Rose Gold

“As Thoreau said, ‘I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.”
― Stephanie Wrobel, Darling Rose Gold

“I had learned the hard way that our parents didn’t have all the answers. We wanted them to. We believed they did for the first couple decades of our lives, depending on the parents and how good they were at covering their asses. But in the end, discovering our parents were mere mortals was no different than finding out about Santa and the Easter Bunny.”
― Stephanie Wrobel, Darling Rose Gold

“We all make mistakes. You can always start fresh.”
― Stephanie Wrobel, Darling Rose Gold

“Peering up, I marveled at the blue-sky day. The sun was shining, not a cloud in sight. How could my world crumble on such a beautiful afternoon? In the movies, it would be pouring right now, and I’d be stuck without an umbrella. I could have used a good-sized tornado right about then to scoop me up and take me somewhere else. Anywhere far, far away.”
― Stephanie Wrobel, Darling Rose Gold

“I am the surface of an undisterbed pond, a cactus in the still heat. The rational mind always wins.”
― Stephanie Wrobel, Darling Rose Gold

“The miracle of life is a lot less interesting when it’s someone else’s miracle.”
― Stephanie Wrobel, Darling Rose Gold

“Everyone knew..., like they knew the Earth circled the sun and never to order the chili dog from Dirty Doug's unless you were ready to butt-trumpet your way through the following twenty-four hours.”
― Stephanie Wrobel, Darling Rose Gold

“It’s not my fault you have no friends and a dead-end job” she ranted, face reddening. She was seething now. “If you’re awkward and ugly, you have no one to blame but yourself. I gave you every opportunity. I gave up my career and my independence, plus any pretense whatsoever of a romantic relationship. I gave you everything, all of me---can you get that through your thick skull? And you thank me for my sacrifices by turning on me the first chance you get? By marching straight to the witness stand? You believed that wench Alex and her bigmouth mother over me? It’s your fault I’m in here, not mine”
― Stephanie Wrobel, Darling Rose Gold

“Denial is as good a strategy as any. The word suggests obliviousness, a refusal to see the truth. But there’s a mighty big difference between someone who won’t see the truth and someone who won’t tell it. People are much more inclined to forgive you if you act like you didn’t know any better.”
― Stephanie Wrobel, Darling Rose Gold

“Where the fuck is my eyebrow?”
― Stephanie Wrobel, Darling Rose Gold

“It’s been almost twenty-five years since my last baby. In seconds his tiny fingers will be wrapped around mine.”
― Stephanie Wrobel, Darling Rose Gold

“But some of us cannot forget and will never forgive. We keep our axes sharp, ready to grind. We hold pleas for mercy between our teeth like jawbreakers. They say a grudge is a heavy thing to carry. Good thing we’re extra strong.”
― Stephanie Wrobel, The Recovery of Rose Gold