Saints for All Occasions
J. Courtney Sullivan
Top 10 Best Quotes
“It was amazing that you did not become your grief entirely, and walk around leaking it everywhere. It could lie dormant inside you for days, weeks, years. You could seem a perfectly whole person to everyone you met. Without warning, grief might poke you in the ribs, punch you in the gut, knock the wind out of you. But even then, you seemed just fine. The world went on and on.”
“One of life's contradictions: how human beings were at once entirely resilient and impossibly fragile. One decision could stay with you forever, and yet you could live through almost anything.”
“What would you have today if you woke up with only the things you thanked God for yesterday?” He wondered”
“The moment a woman was born determined so much of who she was allowed to become.”
“Old age had distilled her down to her essence.”
“Nothing had just happened to her, she had made a choice, and then she had made another and another after that. Taken together, the small choices anyone made added up to a life.”
“It wasn't right that you could only understand your parents' pain once you'd experienced the things they had, and by then they were gone.”
“That was something no one ever told you. That you would have to get to know your own children.”
“She had learned over time that to know anything was bearable. It was secrecy that could not be borne.”
“Motherhood was a physical act as much as an emotional one. It took every part of you.”
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