Quotes About Acceptance

I love you, for putting your hand into my heart and passing over all the foolish, weak things that you cannot help dimly seeing there, and for drawing out into the light all the beautiful belongings that no one else had looked quite so far enough to find.

Love is not blind - It sees more and not less, but because it sees more it is willing to see less.

rubbed the ugly, jagged scar that ran from the corner of his eye to his hairline just above his ear. He was glad

It's hard to think of you as a Margaret. Maizy suits you." "I doubt I'd answer to anything else." Maizy smiled as she adjusted the cloth.

Whattaya say, Cassie, will you marry me?

Supposedly you drink to forget. The trouble is you don't forget, you remember—all the old insults and hatreds, real and imagined.

I don't know whether I am a louse under the white man's skin. I hope I am.

Rain falls on everyone, lightning strikes some. What cannot be changed is best forgotten. God made the world, and He saw that it was good. Not fair. Not happy. Not perfect. Good.

You know what's the most terrifying thing about admitting that you're in love? You are just naked. You put yourself in harm's way and you lay down all your defenses. No clothes, no weapons. Nowhere to hide. Completely vulnerable. The only thing that makes it tolerable is to believe that the other person loves you back...

The world is filled with unreasonable hate. What's wrong with unreasonable love?

Time doesn't run backward, you know, and things that have been done can't be undone, no matter how hard you wish.

The more we love, the more it hurts, and the more we have to let go.

I understand true life doesn't happen when I constantly gaze backwards, mulling over all the injustices others have done or I have done to others.

The church is not a place for perfection. It is, and should be, a haven of protection.

Nothing you can do will separate you from His love. Nothing you don't do will separate you from His love. Nothing done to you will separate you from His love.

I do hope the things I've forgotten don't matter.

Father says it will come in time. "Time heals," he says. I don't tell him that I don't know what time is.

If we spend too much time reliving the past, it gets us nowhere." "That's where I am, Rafe. Nowhere.

He nodded. "You're right. It's probably for the best." Bitterness rose in my throat. I hated things being for the best. They never really were. It was a phrase that sugarcoated the leftover crumbs of our options.

I don't care what mistakes I made or what mistakes you made. I'd make every single one again, if that was the only way to be with you

Ragged clothes?" He grabbed my hand and examined it. "Chipped nails? Those aren't enough to disguise what's inside. You'll always be you, Lia. You can't run from that.

Which weakness shall I tell her? "I walk funny," I say, and she's satisfied with that. (inside joke)

I shan't make a fuss over the babe's father.

His death only gave me an ending -- it didn't give back what had been taken