Quotes about Acceptance

She talks with wolves, without knowing what sort of beasts they are: Where have you been all my life? they ask. Where have I been all my life? she replies.

Nobody's heart is perfect.

This world is not enough, but it will have to do. You can either hold on or let go.

Now maybe I wouldn't do it, but I was a child then, said Oryx more softly. Why are you so angry? I don't buy it, said Jimmy. Where was her rage, how far down was it buried, what did he have to do to dig it up? You don't buy what? Your whole fucking story. All this sweetness and acceptance and crap. If you don't want to buy that, Jimmy, said Oryx, looking at him tenderly, what is it that you would like to buy instead? (167)

In the daylight we know what's gone is gone, but at night it's different. Nothing gets finished, not dying, not mourning;

Now I wanted to be acknowledged, but I feared it.

I didn't want to identify the body, or see it at all. If you don't see the body, it's easier to believe nobody's dead.

No mother is ever, completely, a child's idea of what a mother should be, and I suppose it works the other way around as well. But despite everything, we didn't do badly by one another, we did as well as most.

It would be nice to believe that love should be dished out in a fair way so that everyone got some. But that wasn't how it was going to be for me.

Take what the moment offers. Don't close doors. Be thankful.

But we lived as usual. Everyone does, most of the time.

The older women, the married ones and the widows, wear black clothes and no makeup, as I used to do. When I was in the later months of pregnancy, they would smile at me, as if I was almost one of them. Now they smile at Sarah first.