A child needs your love most when he deserves it least.
—ERMA BOMBECK
Soliloquios Literarioshas quoted3 years ago
This is the one place in the world where the ramifications of my life are fully felt, and it’s far less important to me to be liked these days than to be understood.
Soliloquios Literarioshas quoted3 years ago
Which is just where my story takes place. I seem finally to be learning what you were always trying to teach me, that my own country is as exotic and even as perilous as Algeria.
Soliloquios Literarioshas quoted3 years ago
A child needs your love most when he deserves it least.
—ERMA BOMBECK
♡emma♡has quoted4 years ago
She would sacrifice herself to this one glorious gorging, consequences be damned.
♡emma♡has quoted4 years ago
. And there’s a freedom in apathy, a wild, dizzying liberation on which you can almost get drunk. You can do anything
♡emma♡has quoted4 years ago
There is an enormous difference between disliking yourself and simply not wanting to be here
♡emma♡has quoted4 years ago
something in me, all night, every night, is waiting for you to come home
Regina Azoulayhas quoted6 years ago
But I drew the line when you despaired that Celia was “clingy.” It’s an ugly word, isn’t it, that describes the honey of the heart as a sticky, pestersome substance that won’t brush off.
Regina Azoulayhas quoted6 years ago
the trouble seems rooted in the nature of beauty itself, a surprisingly elusive quality and rarely one you can buy outright. It flees in the face of too much effort. It rewards casualness, and most of all it deigns to arrive by whim, by accident