Quotes About Acceptance

We decided to try in vitro, because both Peter and I felt we couldn't handle another failure. When I miscarried after that, we had to come to terms with the possibility that this wasn't meant to be.

Please…please don't…" "You must let me go, my love," Ventress said, her voice so gentle, so tender, and she smiled lovingly. "It's the Jedi way." And she was gone.

Knowing he couldn't go back to

You are beautiful no matter what they say.

It's an amazing thing to say, 'I'm beautiful ' without feeling like you're cocky.

You got to learn to take what people are willing to give.

I am not glad she is dead, but I am not sorry she is gone.

you can't find peace until you find all the pieces. She wants to help Vivian find some kind of peace, elusive and fleeting as it may be.

As with Dutchy and Carmine on the train, this little cluster of women has become a kind of family to me. Like an abandoned foal that nestles against cows in the barnyard, maybe I just need to feel the warmth of belonging. And if I'm not going to find that with the Byrnes, I will find it, however partial and illusory, with the women in the sewing room.

I did love him. But I did not love him like I loved Dutchy: beyond reason. Maybe you only get one of those in a lifetime, I don't know. But it was all right. It was enough.

It's painful to hold out hope for the things that once brought you joy. You have to find ways to make yourself forget.

I learned long ago that loss is not only probably but inevitable.

We are headed toward the unknown, and we have no choice but to sit quietly in our hard seats and let ourselves be taken there.

What I couldn't see is that sometimes the healing is not in the forgetting but in the letting go. Sometimes the answer you need is to a question you don't know how to ask.

I think of what Mamey told me long ago: there are many ways to love and be loved. Too bad it's taken most of a lifetime for me to understand what that means.

that the quickest relief will come in forgetting.

Look, I don't mean to be rude, but you could never have a normal life, even if that's what you thought you wanted. You and me, we're not 'normal.

mixed together—because Dina refuses to acknowledge

He squints at me. "Except for the red hair and freckles, you look okay. You'll be fine and dandy sitting at the table with a napkin on your lap.

Christina Baker Kline

Because we're older. And this is where we belong." "No it isn't. It is just where we ended up.

What she wants most-what she truly years for-is what any of us want: to be seen. And look. She is.

The older I get, the more I believe that the greatest kindness is acceptance

People have maladies of all kinds, she says, and if they have any sense, they don't waste time whining about them. "We all have our burdens to bear," she says. "You know what yours is, now. That's good. You'll never be surprised by it.