Quotes About Acceptance

But Roarke doesn't feel weird about it. He's full of it, the love, I mean. And when he loves me, things that never worked in me did - do. It was easier when they didn't work, but it's better when they do. You know?

A banner hung over the break-room door, facing out so any who came in would see the sentiment: NO MATTER YOUR RACE, CREED, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, OR POLITICAL AFFILIATION, WE PROTECT AND SERVE, BECAUSE YOU COULD GET DEAD.

Time doesn't heal, whatever they say. It's how we use the time that can heal.

You're not perfect, and that makes you just exactly right.

No matter your race, creed, sexual orientation, or political affiliation, we protect and serve. Because you could get dead.'" "Even if you were an asshole. We added an addendum." On

I know you love me, but I don't know why. I look at you, and I just can't get why it's me. Every time I get my balance, I lose it again. Because it shouldn't be me, and I think it'd kill me if you ever figured that out.

Love, Eve thought, came in all colors, shapes, and sizes.

Worrying about me won't help you get your job done. Who says I'm worried? He stayed where he was; simply held out his hand. She crossed to him, took it, gripped hard. When I met you, she said carefully, I didn't want you in my life. You were one big complication. Every time I looked at you, or heard your voice, or so much as thought about you, the complication got bigger. And now? Now? You are my life. She gave his hand one last squeeze, then released. Okay, enough mushy stuff. Olympus.

Why is that? Why do we love each other?" "Because we are what we are, and we're both okay with it.

EVE WASN'T SURE WHAT IT SAID ABOUT HER that she was more comfortable in the morgue than in a baby boutique.

Because dead people don't get angry. They're dead.

Can't change what was, she said with a shrug. So you deal with what is

People who expect perfection in a mate miss a lot of fun—and sweetness.

And things change, she remembered, no matter how hard you try to hold them in place.

You know better than to blame yourself." "Knowing better doesn't always stop it.

But it happened to us. At first you ask why—why did this happen to us? Then you realize, and try to accept, there is no why." Lori leaned her head to Ira's shoulder. "An evil person does evil things. There is no why.

People always think it can't happen to them, instead of thinking it's going to happen to somebody, why not me." She

You have nothing to be embarrassed about. Life would be awfully dull if we could look back without regretting at least one affair.

When you don't know what you can have, you do okay with what you've got.

When you love somebody, they've got to know who you are, even if you're not exactly who you were.

Some people relax better without the confines of clothes," Peabody said, then flushed when Eve cast a considering glance over her shoulder. "I've heard.

You were never what he wanted you to be. And more than even I hoped. In weak moments, I might credit the lieutenant for some of that.

Mira got to her feet. "People who expect perfection in a mate miss a lot of fun—and sweetness.

Death didn't shock her, but it appalled her, and she knew it always would: the waste of it, the violence and cruelty of it. But she lived with it too much to be shocked, even by this.