“He had the air of someone who imagines he can negotiate with gravity.”
―
Christina McDonald,
The Night Olivia Fell
“But there are no redos in life. You can’t go back and make things better. All you can do is live with it and move forward.” ― Christina McDonald, The Night Olivia Fell
“You don’t have to be right one hundred percent of the time to show you love someone.” ― Christina McDonald, The Night Olivia Fell
“Sometimes the rest of your life arrived by simply saying good-bye.” ― Christina McDonald, The Night Olivia Fell
“To feel love was to feel fear—you just couldn’t let it dictate your life. Love was a risk, but it opened up a world of possibility, one you would never experience without it.” ― Christina McDonald, The Night Olivia Fell
“We aren’t defined by our tragedies, by our history, by our mistakes, but by pieces of love and sadness and happiness, and the whole range of human emotions we feel.” ― Christina McDonald, Behind Every Lie
“Trust, I’d learned, was the greatest gift you could give, the greatest gift to receive. The belief that a person wouldn’t betray you required a strength and confidence” ― Christina McDonald, The Night Olivia Fell
“reminded me that the first hour of every new day starts with darkness—and then the sunshine comes.” ― Christina McDonald, The Night Olivia Fell
“Being a parent is one long process of daring yourself to let go. Sometimes worry and love and control, all get jumbled up until you can't see the difference.” ― Christina McDonald, The Night Olivia Fell
“Loss, death, a broken heart, no matter how figurative, was unbearable. There was never a guarantee you wouldn’t lose those you loved.” ― Christina McDonald, The Night Olivia Fell
“Self-doubt and fear are sort of a buy-one, get-one-free package.” ― Christina McDonald, Behind Every Lie
“can see now it has nothing to do with me. He’s fucked up because he’s fucked up, you know?” ― Christina McDonald, Behind Every Lie
“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. —Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms” ― Christina McDonald, Behind Every Lie
“Suicide of a parent, that type of abandonment, it did things to a person. It didn’t take a shrink to tell me that I didn’t trust people to stay because my mom had promised she’d be there and then wasn’t.” ― Christina McDonald, The Night Olivia Fell
“closed my eyes, blocking out the overhead lights. The hospital bed turned left, the wheels humming against the floor as it glided down the hall.” ― Christina McDonald, Behind Every Lie
“There is a point, I recognize, at which a parent must resist being the protector and instead abandon their child to their own choices. The loss shook me, but I could not change it.” ― Christina McDonald, Behind Every Lie
“It reminded me that the first hour of every new day starts with darkness--and then the sunshine comes.” ― Christina McDonald
“Trust, I’d learned, was the greatest gift you could give, the greatest gift to receive. The belief that a person wouldn’t betray you required a strength and confidence I was only just finding. Trusting someone else, having a partner, meant I was living.” ― Christina McDonald, The Night Olivia Fell
“What do you do when you know something and nobody will listen? When you need answers and nobody will provide them? When you can’t trust anybody to help you?” ― Christina McDonald, The Night Olivia Fell
“But there are no redos in life. You can’t go back and make things better. All you can do is live with it and move forward.” ― Christina McDonald, The Night Olivia Fell
“You don’t have to be right one hundred percent of the time to show you love someone.” ― Christina McDonald, The Night Olivia Fell
“Sometimes the rest of your life arrived by simply saying good-bye.” ― Christina McDonald, The Night Olivia Fell
“To feel love was to feel fear—you just couldn’t let it dictate your life. Love was a risk, but it opened up a world of possibility, one you would never experience without it.” ― Christina McDonald, The Night Olivia Fell
“We aren’t defined by our tragedies, by our history, by our mistakes, but by pieces of love and sadness and happiness, and the whole range of human emotions we feel.” ― Christina McDonald, Behind Every Lie
“Trust, I’d learned, was the greatest gift you could give, the greatest gift to receive. The belief that a person wouldn’t betray you required a strength and confidence” ― Christina McDonald, The Night Olivia Fell
“reminded me that the first hour of every new day starts with darkness—and then the sunshine comes.” ― Christina McDonald, The Night Olivia Fell
“Being a parent is one long process of daring yourself to let go. Sometimes worry and love and control, all get jumbled up until you can't see the difference.” ― Christina McDonald, The Night Olivia Fell
“Loss, death, a broken heart, no matter how figurative, was unbearable. There was never a guarantee you wouldn’t lose those you loved.” ― Christina McDonald, The Night Olivia Fell
“Self-doubt and fear are sort of a buy-one, get-one-free package.” ― Christina McDonald, Behind Every Lie
“can see now it has nothing to do with me. He’s fucked up because he’s fucked up, you know?” ― Christina McDonald, Behind Every Lie
“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. —Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms” ― Christina McDonald, Behind Every Lie
“Suicide of a parent, that type of abandonment, it did things to a person. It didn’t take a shrink to tell me that I didn’t trust people to stay because my mom had promised she’d be there and then wasn’t.” ― Christina McDonald, The Night Olivia Fell
“closed my eyes, blocking out the overhead lights. The hospital bed turned left, the wheels humming against the floor as it glided down the hall.” ― Christina McDonald, Behind Every Lie
“There is a point, I recognize, at which a parent must resist being the protector and instead abandon their child to their own choices. The loss shook me, but I could not change it.” ― Christina McDonald, Behind Every Lie
“It reminded me that the first hour of every new day starts with darkness--and then the sunshine comes.” ― Christina McDonald
“Trust, I’d learned, was the greatest gift you could give, the greatest gift to receive. The belief that a person wouldn’t betray you required a strength and confidence I was only just finding. Trusting someone else, having a partner, meant I was living.” ― Christina McDonald, The Night Olivia Fell
“What do you do when you know something and nobody will listen? When you need answers and nobody will provide them? When you can’t trust anybody to help you?” ― Christina McDonald, The Night Olivia Fell
