Quotes About Acceptance

She could even forget that she had once been considered the girl most likely to become somebody, when she'd turned out to be nobody in particular.

That was when I came to understand that freaks of nature and ordinary people had no business being together.

He knew that attachments were for the living, and so he did the honorable thing. He let her go. He leaned close so she would hear him say it was all right for her to leave him. They knew it was now; they could feel something shift the way it always did. Even Argus, who'd been whimpering, grew quiet. It was not a dream, but something more. She breathed out, and inside that one breath was every word that had been spoken, every step she had taken, everyone she had ever loved.

You could not have all that you wanted, but if you found love, you were fortunate.

Some of the guys he knew said the only people who didn't fear death were those who had nothing to lose and he thought they were probably right.

what you give up you can learn to live without, even if it causes you heartbreak at the start. Whether you are mortal or not, you go on, even if sorrow nags

Should I judge myself?" she ventured to ask. "Or should I leave that to the Almighty, who forgives us all for being what He made us?

Have you ever felt that you lost something, and you can't get it back? As though it's been stolen right out from under you? Sure, the barman said. It's called life.

I'll know that sometimes those who love you best are the ones who leave you behind.

When you lose somebody you think you've lost the whole world as well but that's not the way things turn out in the end. Eventually you pick yourself up and look out the window and once you do see everything that was there before the world ended is out there still.

No matter what, the past would follow around. A sorry soul that only grew heavier in each town. She couldn't run away.

He was withdrawing. I think it was getting harder for him to accept his fate. Like a bird in a cage, he grew silent.

I wasn't good company, that was true, and people avoided me, but that was alright.

Some people believe that if you don't open your eyes to sorrow and you don't talk about it, you can pretend it never happened.

Over the years I had grown attached to it, as men grow attached to their miseries and their burdens.

Lately, she's been wondering if perhaps when the living become the dead they leave an empty space behind, a hollow that no one else can fill. She was lucky once, for a very brief time. Maybe she should just be grateful for that.

You want me to lie to you? said McKay. I shrugged. Why not? I didn't mind lies.

for things without remedy must be without regard.

No one can accept the indiscriminate order of cruelty.

Life was worth living, no matter what fate might bring.

There are so many ways to stop the knowing, and I tried them all. I tried silence, I tried heroin, I tried calling it love. And then I stopped trying to call my dumbness any one of ten thousand names.

It was easier not to face judgment, especially from your own kind.

we have to fight them. The best way to do this is to be who you are, every part of you, the good and the bad, the sorrowful and the joyous. You can never run away. There is nowhere to run to. I think your mother knew that in the end, and that is why she came back here to be buried. We are who we are from the start.

Although she'd never believe it, those lines in Gillian's face are the most beautiful part about her. They reveal what she's gone through and what she's survived and who exactly she is, deep inside.