Quotes About Acceptance

tears and rain are the same thing, they're meant to wash you clean and make you grow. If you don't let them out, you'll drown inside.

You'll always be sad about this," Mia said softly. "But it doesn't mean you made the wrong choice. It's just something that you have to carry.

She understands. There is nowhere to go but on. Still, part of her longs to go back

He can guess, but he won't ever know, not really. What it was like, what she was thinking, everything she'd never told him. Whether she thought he'd failed her, or whether she wanted him to let her go. This, more than anything, makes him feel that she is gone.

There is nowhere to go but on. Still, part of her longs to go back for one instant—not to change anything, not even to speak to Lydia, not to tell her anything at all. Just to open the door and see her daughter there, asleep, one more time, and know all was well.

Maybe at birth everyone should be given to a family of a different race to be raised. Maybe that would solve racism once and for all.

Who ever thinks, recalling the face of the one they loved who is gone: yes, I looked at you enough, I loved you enough, we had enough time, any of this was enough?

His job was to make losses feel smaller. But the students never turned their C-minuses into Bs; new funding never materialized. You never got what you wanted; you just learned to get by without it.

Because more than anything, her mother had wanted to stand out; because more than anything, her father had wanted to blend in. Because those things had been impossible. In

This is it, Marilyn told herself. Let it go. This is what you have. Accept it.

There was no room left in her for anger. Something within her tipped and cracked.

For moving would never have been enough; he sees that now. It would have been the same anywhere. Children of Mixed Backgrounds Often Struggle to Find Their Place.

You'll always be sad about this, but it doesn't mean you made the wrong choice. It's just something that you have to carry.

this was the first reason he came to love her: because she had blended in so perfectly, because she had seemed so completely and utterly at home.

grown up surrounded by a kind of resigned cynicism,

Everything that she had wanted for Lydia, which Lydia had never wanted but had embraced anyway. A dull chill creeps over her. Perhaps—and this thought chokes her—that had dragged Lydia underwater at last.

Izzy, sit up straight," she would say at the dinner table, thinking: Scoliosis. Cerebral palsy. "Izzy, calm down." Though she would never quite articulate it this way, resentment began to sheathe concern. ANGER IS FEAR'S BODYGUARD,

Everyone in the Richardson family noticed Izzy's improved demeanor. "She's almost pleasant around you," Lexie told Mia one day. Izzy's adoration for Mia, like everything she did, did not come by halves: there was nothing Izzy wouldn't do for her.

Não há outro sítio para onde seguir a não ser em frente. Ainda assim, uma parte dela anseia regressar por um instante - não para mudar o que quer que seja, nem sequer para falar com Lydia, nem para lhe dizer nada. Simplesmente abrir a porta e ver a filha ali, a dormir, uma vez mais, e saber que está tudo bem.

Everything that she had wanted for Lydia, which Lydia had never wanted but had embraced anyway.

You never got what you wanted ; you just learned to get by without it.

Proof, she told herself, that I'm just as smart as the others. That I belong.

Even her beloved Warren gave up at that point -- "I don't need to know how it works, Mi," he told her at last, "I just want to see the pictures" -- and Mia realized that she was crossing into a place she would have to go alone.

Sometimes you almost forgot: that you didn't look like everyone else.