"You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole--like the world, or t..."
"Letting go doesn't mean that you don't care about someone anymore. It's just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself."
"to love life, to love it evenwhen you have no stomach for itand everything you've held dearcrumbles like burnt paper in your hands,your throat filled ..."
"To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous."
"Real isn't how you are made,' said the Skin Horse. 'It's a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play w..."
"I have never found anybody who could stand to accept the daily demonstrative love I feel in me, and give back as good as I give."