From Glennon Doyle Melton's Love Warrior:
After speaking of her mother's beauty and her equal kindness, she writes:
'I understand that beauty is a form of kindness. It is for giving away, and I try to be generous.'
'Life and love simply ask too much of me. Everything hurts. I don't know how people can let it all hurt so much.'
'If life doesn't want me to drink, then life should quit being so damn scary.'
She also talks about 'hot loneliness' and I thought EXACTLY.
'Sleep is my only escape, and the price of escape is waking me up with the fresh awareness that I wasn't dreaming. This is my life.'
'Grief is nothing but a painful waiting, a horrible patience. Grief cannot be torn down or scaled or overcome or outsmarted. It can only be outlasted. Survival is surrender to the brick wall (grief).'
'People who are hurting don't need Avoiders, Protectors, or Fixers. What we need are patient, loving witnesses. People to sit quietly and hold space for us. People to stand in helpless vigil to our pain.'
From I Know What I'm Doing, and other lies I tell myself, by Jen Kirkman:
'I was happy talking to Allison. I felt like myself again. And when I'm happy I don't abuse cheese. Cheese is a privilege.'
'Which way is Lexington Ave? Don't say a direction. Say left or right. Oh, never mind. Just point. Just turn me around like a child in front of a pinata and tell me where to swing.'
Her phone gets stolen and she's talking to two cops on the street and they're talking about her living alone and having to make a decision and just then someone started playing the saxophone, and Cop #2 says: Sometimes New York just does its thing and we to watch. You'll never see that phone again but at least you have this story.'
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