Maybe I was crazy to consider it, but I’d always hoped that if I were a good enough girl, if I did everything right, if I said the right things or said nothing at all– I thought my parents would change their minds. I thought they would finally listen when I tried to talk. I thought they would give me a chance. I thought they might finally love me. I always had that stupid hope. Tahereh Mafi
Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby- awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.
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Lemony Snicket
You know all that sympathy that you feel for an abused child who suffers without a good mom or dad to love and care for them? Well, they don't stay children forever. No one magically becomes an adult the day they turn eighteen. Some people...
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Ashly Lorenzana
When you loved someone and had to let them go, there will always be that small part of yourself that whispers, "What was it that you wanted and why didn't you fight for it?
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Shannon L. Alder
It never gets easier, missing you. And sometimes I wonder if it ever will.
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Heather Brewer
Parents have this twisted belief that anyone under the age of about twenty simply can’t know what love is, like the age to love is assessed in the same way the law assesses the legal age to drink. They think that the ‘emotional growth’ of...
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J.a. Redmerski
More Quotes By Tahereh Mafi
All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.
I'm oxygen and he's dying to breathe.
I want to be the friend you fall hopelessly in love with. The one you take into your arms and into your bed and into the private world you keep trapped in your head. I want to be that kind of friend. The one who...
It's the kind of kiss that inspires stars to climb into the sky and light up the world.
And I've fallen. So hard. I've hit the ground. Gone right through it. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>Never in my life have I felt this. Nothing like this. I've felt shame and cowardice, weakness and strength. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>I've known terror and indifference, self-hate and general disgust....
