Hadley & Grace QUOTES

1 " Smiling doesn’t mean she doesn’t care. It’s only a symptom of life carrying on, which inevitably it does. No matter how cataclysmic the events, and even in light of the worst tragedies, hearts continue to beat, lungs continue to draw air, and sometimes things continue to be funny. Some pain changes you, alters you permanently and tattoos your soul. “Forever pain,” her grandmother called it, but amazingly you still live through it. And eventually, even forever pain recedes and grows less sharp. You wake up one day to discover it no longer fills every corner of your mind. It’s still there, lurking in the background, but it’s less present and pronounced, a throb deep within you that almost takes focus to feel. "

― Suzanne Redfearn , Hadley & Grace

3 " Some pain changes you, alters you permanently and tattoos your soul. “Forever pain,” her grandmother called it, but amazingly you still live through it. And eventually, even forever pain recedes and grows less sharp. You wake up one day to discover it no longer fills every corner of your mind. It’s still there, lurking in the background, but it’s less present and pronounced, a throb deep within you that almost takes focus to feel. "

― Suzanne Redfearn , Hadley & Grace

5 " She wants to tell her it’s okay. Smiling doesn’t mean she doesn’t care. It’s only a symptom of life carrying on, which inevitably it does. No matter how cataclysmic the events, and even in light of the worst tragedies, hearts continue to beat, lungs continue to draw air, and sometimes things continue to be funny. "

― Suzanne Redfearn , Hadley & Grace

7 " It’s one thing to suck at cooking or sewing or making small talk, but to suck at being a mom, that’s got to be the worst failing in the world. And so not fair to Miles. He deserves so much better. "

― Suzanne Redfearn , Hadley & Grace

9 " One foot in front of the other, she tells herself as she heads down the stairs. Repeat as often as necessary to finish. Someone famous said that. She can’t remember who. "

― Suzanne Redfearn , Hadley & Grace

11 " There is no going back. One decision leads to the next and then the next, a continual stumbling forward over each past mistake until you find yourself someplace entirely different from where you started or from where you ever intended to go. "

― Suzanne Redfearn , Hadley & Grace

13 " Bless us, oh Lord, and these Thy gifts, which we are about to receive from Thy bounty, through Christ, our Lord. Amen.” “Amen,” they say together. "

― Suzanne Redfearn , Hadley & Grace

15 " Hang in there, kiddo,” she says. “Today is not forever. It’s just today. "

― Suzanne Redfearn , Hadley & Grace

17 " Time is a thief, she thinks. You believe you have an infinite amount of it, but then you blink and everything that was has been replaced with something else entirely. "

― Suzanne Redfearn , Hadley & Grace