💬 Quotes

"You have no idea how much damage you can do in a single life. You just have no idea."

"It's a scary thought, that you can be gone in a second. That everything you are, everything you have, everything you're planning to be, can be wiped out, just like that."

"The thing about falling is that it's unpredictable. You don't know where you're going to land, or if you're even going to survive the impact."

"For a long time I’d been living like I was already dead, just going through the motions, never really present in the moments that mattered."

"Be careful what you wish for. You might just get it. But you might not get it the way you expected."

"Maybe you can afford to wait. Maybe for you there’s a tomorrow. Maybe for you there’s a thousand tomorrows, or three thousand, or ten, so much time you can bathe in it, roll around in it, let it slide like coins through your fingers. So much time you can waste it."

"I realized that the way we live is not the only way to live. That there are so many lives happening at once, millions of stories overlapping and crashing into one another."

"You have no idea how much power you have. And that's the tragedy of it. You have no idea."

"It’s funny how, when you’re a child, you can’t wait to grow up. And then, once you’re grown, you realize that being grown-up is just a series of adjustments to the fact that you’re slowly dying."

"Be careful what you wish for. Sometimes you get it, and then you have to live with it."

"Lo que una vez fue mi vida entera se ha convertido en un episodio de mi pasado. Un episodio que no deja de repetirse."

"El amor maternal no es un sentimiento innato, es un proceso laborioso y, a veces, una imposición cultural."

"Kevin no era un niño difícil; era una presencia. Y las presencias, a diferencia de los niños, no se pueden educar, solo se pueden tolerar."

"Si no eres responsable de lo que son tus hijos, ¿de qué otra cosa podrías ser responsable en esta vida?"

"La maldad no es un accidente, es una elección consciente que se va nutriendo del silencio de quienes nos rodean."

"Al final, solo me queda el papel de madre de un asesino. Es la única etiqueta que el mundo me permite llevar puesta."

"El hecho de que algo sea inevitable no significa que debas resignarte a ello."

"Yo no soy una madre perfecta, pero soy una madre. Y eso es lo que me mantiene atada a él, incluso ahora, en la celda."

"No es que no quisiera a mi hijo, es que no me gustaba. Son dos cosas distintas, aunque la gente se empeñe en confundirlas."

"La maternidad es una renuncia constante, pero nadie te dice que a veces renuncias a ti misma, a tu identidad y a tu cordura."