Quotes About Release

I will eat these herbs. Then whatever is truly in me, let it be out, at last.

I lifted my hand in blessing and gave my son to the world.

I would untie him if I could. If he would let me.

A few of these, so few I can count them on my fingers, I let go. They did not see me as their dinner. They were pious men, honestly lost, and I would feed them and if there was a handsome one among them I might take him to my bed. It was not desire, not even its barest scrapings. It was a sort of rage, a knife I used upon myself. I did it to prove my skin was still my own.

To release him from it and make him Achilles again.

few of these, so few I can count them on my fingers, I let go. They did not see me as their dinner. They were pious men, honestly lost, and I would feed them, and if there was a handsome one among them I might take him to my bed.

Only when I'm dancing can I feel this free.

She put her head down on the table and cried all the tears that she knew she should have cried in the past year and a half. But they weren't ready then, they were now.

Two words. Three vowels. Four constenants. Seven letters. It can either cut you open to the core and leave you in ungodly pain or it can free your soul and lift a tremendous weight off you shoulders. The phrase is: It's over.

What I know: when I met you, a blue rush began. I want you to know, I no longer hold you responsible.

That's enough. You can stop now: the phrase Sedgwick said she longed to hear whenever she was suffering. (Enough hurting, enough showing off, enough achieving, enough talking, enough trying, enough writing, enough living.)

81. What I know: when I met you, a blue rush began. I want you to know, I no longer hold you responsible.

Descubre que es posible llorar todo el día y toda la noche. Que hay muchas formas de llorar: lágrimas que se derraman de repente, gemidos hondos y desgarrados, el interminable goteo silencioso de agua de los ojos.

The words fly out of her mouth, like hornets, words she didn't even know she knew, words that dart and crackle and maim, words that twist and mangle her tongue.

Where can I free myself of the homeland in my body?

Take me back to where I was before I met you, then leave

Let your children go if you want to keep them.

What was in her retracted, slipped out easy as a snake shedding its skin.

Wirkliche Wahrheit unterscheidet sich von jeder phrasenhaften Wahrhaftigkeit dadurch, daß sie etwas ganz Bestimmtes will, daß etwas geschieht – nämlich daß sie den Menschen löst, frei macht.

The trouble with a great sadness is that it doesn't fit inside your body.

Let people know when you feel unhappy, disappointed, or hurt about something. Once the feeling has been acknowledged by you—not necessarily by others—it tends to dissipate and is less likely to trouble you. If you hold your feelings inside, you are apt to explode at some minor incident, potentially causing still more harm to your health. Own up to what is in your heart and make peace with it forever.

Me sentí liviana de toda pena. Fue como si la angustia que me torturaba hubiera andado tanteando en mí hasta escaparse por el camino de las lágrimas.

losses are necessary because we grow by losing and leaving and letting go."6

Les larmes entraînent les chagrins loin de la peine.