“If you have one parent who loves you, even if they can't buy you clothes, they're so poor and they make all kinds of mistakes and maybe sometimes they even give you awful advice, but never for one moment do you doubt their love for you--if you have this, you have incredibly good fortune.
If you have two parents who love you? You have won life's Lotto.
If you do not have parents, or if the parents you have are so broken and so, frankly, terrible that they are no improvement over nothing, this is fine.
It's not ideal because it's harder without adults who love you more than they love themselves. But harder is just harder, that's all.”
Source: This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.
“Oh yes. It was well worth it, doing things the proper way.”
Source: The Slow Regard of Silent Things
“She was not vain enough to work her will against the world. But she could use the things the world had given her.”
Source: The Slow Regard of Silent Things
“But for half a minute she wished it was a different sort of day, even though she knew that nothing good could come from wanting at the world. Even though she knew it was a wicked thing to do.”
Source: The Slow Regard of Silent Things
“Before you examine the body of a patient, be patient to learn his story. For once you learn his story, you will also come to know his body.”
Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“She shelled the nuts and toasted them, jiggling them about in the pan. She sprinkled them with salt and ate them each by each. Some were bitter. Some were sweet. Some were hardly anything. That was just the way of things.”
Source: The Slow Regard of Silent Things
“It exhasperated her, but she knew better than to force the world to her desire.”
Source: The Slow Regard of Silent Things
“It takes courage to seek God, and courage to wait for His reply.”
Source: Killing Lions: A Guide Through the Trials Young Men Face
“Patience is the ability to enjoy the calm of boredom.”
Source: The Pith of Life: Aphorisms in Honor of Liberty
“If by years of patient suffering, God can manage to take the harshness out of my voice, then the time has been well-spent.”
Source: Notes from No Man's Land