Quotes About Acceptance

it's amazing what you can get used to.

It took courage to let things fall apart so beautifully.

If Mitchell was ever going to become a good Christian, he would have to stop disliking people so intensely.

To be inclusive you must accommodate different levels of sophistication.

His lost look of a man who realized that all this dying was going to be the only life he ever had.

Some people need a picture. Any great religion has to be inclusive. And to be inclusive you have to accommodate different levels of sophistication.

Just when she'd got her head on straight, her body started falling apart.

We just want to live. If anyone would let us.

As one does the return of sun after winter, I stood still and accepted the warm glow of possibility, of feeling right in the company of this small, oddly fierce person, with the inky hair and the lovely, unemphasized body.

I don't want to ruin your life, Leonard said in a gentler tone. You're not ruining it. The drugs just slow the process down. But the end's inevitable. The question is, how to turn this thing off? He jabbed at his head with his index finger. It's cutting me up, and I can't turn it off. Madeleine, listen to me. Listen. I'm not going to get better.

I should also mention, with the vestigial pang of a once flat-chested girl, Desdemona's voluptuous figure.

Don't you think it would have been easier just to stay the way you were?" I lifted my face and looked into my mother's eyes. And I told her: "This is the way I was."   You

Ma már nem érdekel az örökké tartó hírnév, és az se, hogy tökéletes könyvet írjak. Megelégszem azzal, ha csak emléket állít képtelen életemnek.

We weren't prejudiced against them. We wanted to include them in our society if they would only act normal!

We were ready to accept the Negroes. We weren't prejudiced against them. We wanted to include them in our society if they would only act normal.

When he heard the news of my sex, Uncle Pete refused to accept any congratulations. There was no magic involved. "Besides," he joked, "Milt did all the work.

We were happy when Joe the Retard showed up. He arrived on his mother's arm, wearing his baggy Bermuda shorts and his blue baseball cap, and as usual he was grinning with the face he shared with every other mongoloid.

Children were only strangers you agreed to live with

Becoming a person, of course, means finding your people, and your place among them

Cecila was weird, but we're not. And then: We just want to live. If anyone would let us.

You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it's all right

I realise there's something incredibly honest about trees in winter, how they're experts at letting things go.

Maybe I've moved to the dark side, but it's clean and nice and we never run out of toilet paper.

Yeah, I'm over forty, flighty, and fluffy- I'd say I'm not ideal bouncer material.