#ren

My original fear that my daughter was going to die before BettyJane and myself has now been replaced with the fear that she is going to outlive us. ↗

— John Passaro

#caregiving #fear #parents-responsibility #life

My life is an open book; at least this photo album". ~R. Alan Woods [2013] ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#life-and-living #r-alan-woods #transparency #life

TIME WENT ON, life with the children unfolding in its own ecosystem, small plastic toys seeming to grow up from the carpet like mushrooms, clothes falling to the floor like autumn leaves. Every once in a while she would blaze through the house and clean everything--at which point, the process would start all over. ↗

— Erica Bauermeister

#cleaning #nature-of-things #toys #life

Christ awareness is imperative." ~R. Alan Woods [2013] ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#christ #imperative-for-life #r-alan-woods #life

Une lutte qui semble perdue, est la plus excitante. ↗

— Jacques Tardi

#french #interesting #life #life-lesson #life-lessons

You know everyone loves to hate a happy pair of lovebirds. ↗

— Lauren Kate

#fallen #lauren-kate #love

...the love, respect, and confidence of my children was the sweetest reward I could receive for my efforts to be the woman I would have them copy. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#love

I told you," he whispers back. I can feel his breath just tickling the space behind my ear, making my hair prick up on my neck. "I like you." "You don't know me," I say quickly. "I want to, though. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#delirium #lauren-oliver #lena-holoway #love #love

Love children especially, for they too are sinless like the angels; they live to soften and purify our hearts and, as it were, to guide us. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#love #love

I didn’t know how I could live with that knowledge, without it eating me up, without it poisoning every happy memory I had of growing up. Without it ruining everything Beck and I had. I didn’t understand how someone could be both God and the devil. How the same person could destroy you and save you. When everything I was, good and bad, was knotted with threads of his making, how was I supposed to know whether to love or hate him? ↗

— Maggie Stiefvater

#love #parenting #sam-roth #love