Carolyn Parkhurst Quotes
It's gratifying to know that you've appeared in someone else's dreams. It's proof that you exist, in a way, proof that you have substance and value outside the walls of your own mind.
Perhaps she saw before her a lifetime of walking on the ruined earth and chose instead a single moment in the air.
Sometimes I wonder how we can be so sure what it is God sees. How arrogant we are, I sometimes think, to imagine there's someone watching us every minute. To think our every action matters that much.
I wake up in that state of grief when you can tell you've been mourning even in your sleep.
The simplest thing that can be said about any person, any relationship, is that it's not simple at all.
It's true, isn't it, that each of us has two hearts? The secret heart, curled behind like a fist, living gnarled and shrunken beneath the plain, open one we use every day.
Because for most of us, suicide is a moment we'll never choose. It's only for people like Lexy, who know they might choose eventually, who believe they have a choice to make.
