All We Ever Wanted Quotes

“If we do not acknowledge our collective trauma, how can we ever heal from it? When we speak, when we share, we can change things. Maybe even change the world.”
― Seth King, All We Ever Wanted

“... all you have to do is hold on long enough to get to the “mostly okay” part.”
― Seth King, All We Ever Wanted

“You remember your first kiss, all nervous and sweaty and triumphant. Your first heartbreak, and the way it shatters and flattens you like a glass bowl dropped onto a tile floor. Your first date; your first successful job interview; the first time someone ever told you they loved you; the last time you saw your childhood dog; the last time you ever held your grandmother’s hand. We remember these moments because we need them. We need them because they sustain us, even the bad ones. They still tell us that we were really here, that we really lived, that we really happened.”
― Seth King, All We Ever Wanted

“You can throw a distressed swimmer a life raft, but if they refused to take it, they were still going to drown anyway.”
― Seth King, All We Ever Wanted

“Why was unconditional love given to some, but not all? Why would my mother only love me, and why did society only accept me, under the condition that I agreed to pretend to be someone I wasn’t?

Why was acceptance offered to some, but not all?

And who had decided all these rules, anyway?”
― Seth King, All We Ever Wanted

“Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”
― Seth King, All We Ever Wanted