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“There were times, she would admit, when for all her heroic independence, her sacred resilience, she would have liked to trust her weight to the love of another person like that. To fall backwards in absolute security. Bu she had only known doubting love. Love that needed to be weighed against what it cost. She was exhausted. Everything was so hard.”

Love Relationships Security Trust Exhaustion Panenka Hession

Book:Panenka

Source: Panenka

“He had entered a selfish period of survival, [...]. They had rained love on him, willing him to open up and accept their support, but it all bounced back off the carapace that had formed around his wounded inner self. The tragedy during that time was that he neither let them in nor let them go. But what else is possible for a man unable to solve his own sadness?”

Love Relationships Support Sadness Survival Panenka Hession

Book:Panenka

Source: Panenka

“But isn't that what allowing yourself be loved is all about -- letting something greater than fear into your life?”

Love Fear Relationships Panenka

Book:Panenka

Source: Panenka

“Aren't you afraid of failing? Letting everyone down?' Esther thought about it. 'Maybe it's important that other people learn how to handle disappointment.”

Inspirational Failure Disappointment Reflective Panenka Hession

Book:Panenka

Source: Panenka

“For so long I was afraid to stay close to anybody because I had so much anger and confusion inside me. I knew that I couldn't let anyone into my life until all that had passed. The problem I could never solve was how to relate to people in the meantime. Other people's love is frightening when you're suffering. It's overwhelming. When you're consumed with the effort of processing internal pain, it becomes impossible to do anything else. It's like holding your breath under water: you realise that you need to breathe but if you breathe at the wrong time, you drown. I only survived thanks to the people in my life -- people I repaid by letting them down.”

Love Pain Relationships Depression Anger Confusion Panenka Hession

Book:Panenka

Source: Panenka

“Life should always be like that. Resting safely, with someone looking over you, attending to the little indulgences that loved people enjoy”

Love Life Family

Book:Panenka

Source: Panenka

“Panenka had already internalised the profound blame being attached to him. He deserved it and the name that had already become branded on him. The criticism was justified; the punishment similarly so. They should be allowed to destroy him, and if they didn't do it, he would do it to himself.”

Blame Guilt Panenka Hession

Book:Panenka

Source: Panenka

“I could have asked for the full tour ― you could have shown me around all your own facts and circumstances, given me the tourist board version of yourself. A whole story that I would later have to revise or unlearn based on who you turned out to be. But if I start with what you're actually like, pick you up where I found you, then at least I'm starting with my information. I can sketch you my own way, and then colour you in over time. And you could do the same with me.”

Relationships Panenka Hession

Book:Panenka

Source: Panenka

“Leonard wore a new feeling of peace. He had always associated peace with the idea of happiness, as if it were some sort of steady state that happiness turned into when it was for real. But now he realized that peace is independent of any one feeling. The deep peace that he now felt was in a minor key. It was not blissful, but melancholy. It was a profound acceptance of things as the were, devoid of superficial preferences. The weight of effort that it took to be happy was lifted from his bones.”

Happiness Peace Happy

Book:Leonard and Hungry Paul

Source: Leonard and Hungry Paul

“Do you know what resonance is?' 'Resonance?' 'It's as though one person sounds a bell in their heart, and if the other person has the same bell inside them, it rings too.' 'I see,' he said to her reflection. 'So,' she continued, 'that's how you can recognise something in someone, even if you know nothing about them.”

People Love Relationships Friendship Panenka Hession

Book:Panenka

Source: Panenka

“But it was too late. He had already slipped into a deep depression and developed a dangerous indifference to himself. To describe it as sadness would be to ascribe a degree of feeling that was lacking in him during that period which lasted for — who knows? — perhaps weeks, months, or maybe almost twenty-five years.”

Sadness Depression Indifference Feeling Panenka Hession

Book:Panenka

Source: Panenka