Quotes about Acceptance

Time cures you first, and then it kills you.

I walked through the valley of my fate, is all, and learned to love what I could lose.

Yet I stake a claim, I am here, for I must be somewhere. But only as a child it seems, struggling to understand what every wife and gentleman passing on the street seems to know by rote. Whom to love, whom to castigate.

There's people I love. But there's so many other kinds of love, too. And people act so hateful to every kind but their own.

I didn't wish to be comforted. "You can't replace people you love with other people," I said. "They're not like old shoes or something." "No. But you can trust that you're not going to run out of people to love.

if you look hard enough you can always see reasons, but you'll go crazy if you think it's all punishment for your sins.

People had to manage terrible truths.

Well, why were they dumb enough to vote for Leah anyway, is what I asked Nelson. If they knew it was going to get Tata Kuvudundu so riled up? Nelson said some of them that voted for her were put out with Tata Ndu, and some were put out with Father, so everybody ended up getting what they didn't want, and now had to go along with it. Nobody even cares that much one way or another about Leah, is what Nelson said. Oh, well, I told him. That is what we call Democracy.

To be here was to be known. If Lee County isn't that, it's nothing.

I needed no snake to tell me I didn't belong in that family or house, or life. I was the tree of knowledge.

The truest truth. For my whole sixteen years I've rarely thought I was worth much more than a distracted grumble from God. But now in my shelter of all things impossible, I drift in a warm bath of forgiveness, and it seems pointless to resist. I have no energy for improving myself. If Anatole can wrap all my rattlebone sins in a blanket and call me goodness itself, why then I'll just believe him.

No, you shouldn't have come here. But you are here, so yes, you should be here. There are more words in the world then yes and no.