Quotes About Acceptance

She supposed it must always be this way; once the unthinkable settles into being the norm you become numb to it. She never wanted to be that numb.

I love you, Brew. No you don't, he said. Just shut up and take it, I told him. He smiled. Okay.

Nothing stays wondrous forever. It's human nature to grow accustomed to that which becomes normal, even if it's a new shade of normal.

We tried to be good parents . . . but there's a point at which you give up trying." "No, there's not," Connor tells her. Then he turns to go, leaving them with the worst punishment of all: having to live with themselves.

Life is like a bad haircut. At first it looks awful, then you kind of get used to it, and before you know it, it grows out and you gotta get another haircut that maybe won't be so bad... So life goes on, good haircut, bad haircut, until finally you go bald, and it don't matter no more.

I don't forgive him-I merely understand him.

Are you calling me stupid?says Emby. I think I just did. Hayden laughs. Hey, the Mouth Breather's right-unwinding does help people. If it wasn't for unwinding, there would be bald guys again-and wouldn't that be horrible?

I'm too old to rage against the system. I just whine at it.

The idea of his life ending was not much of a problem for him. In fact, it had become an oddly familiar theme. He had died so many times, and in so many ways, he was used to it. It held no more terror for him than falling asleep – which was often worse, because when he slept, he had nightmares. At least being deadish was a dreamless state, and the only difference between being deadish and being dead was the length of time involved.

Sometimes I think it would be easier to die than to face that, because "what could have been" is much more highly regarded than "what should have been." Dead kids are put on pedestals, but mentally ill kids get hidden under the rug.

You make errors all the time...as does every other human being ever lived. Error is an intrinsic part of the human condition- and it is something I deeply love about humankind.

No matter how smart we think we are, we simply can't know all there is to now-and if you spend all your time thinking about those things, it will drive you crazy.

while an adult could rarely be universally loved, everyone could love the right kid.

I have no doubt that, one way or another, you'll fill the empty spaces left behind.

At home they expect you to be fixed, she says. They say they understand, but the only people who really understand are the ones who've been to That Place, too. It's like a man telling a woman he knows what it feels like to give birth

In fact, in the grand scheme of things, everyone was equally useless. That`s what he was saying, and it infuriated Citra, because on a certain level, she knew he was right.

He would have to adjust to a life without her, as well as a life without himself, for who was he now?

Even an acknowledgment from someone who hates him is better than having no one but strangers watch him perish.

He tries to think of other things, other places, but his mind keeps being drawn back to this place. Everyone's so close around him now. Yellow figures lean all around him like flower petals closing in. He does not deserve this. He has done many things, not all good, but he does not deserve this. And he never did get his priest.

I can't help what I have any more than you can help what you don't

Sometimes prejudice can be slapped upside the head by tolerance.

Martwe dzieci stawia siÄ™ na piedestale, a te chore psychicznie zamiata pod dywan

Cuando uno no puede ganar, lo mejor es que haga un chiste de la derrota.

No, don't forget it, but you have to process it and move on. Live your life. Otherwise he took your future away from you too.