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21 " needing arms to hold me safe during the darkness, wanting kisses on my face to put me to sleep, to wake me up, to put over me a safe parasol of love. "
― V.C. Andrews , Seeds of Yesterday (Dollanganger, #4)
22 " I had heard the wind from the mountains calling me last night, telling me it was my time to go, and I woke up, knowing what to do.Once I was in that cold dim room, without furniture or carpet or rugs, only a dollhouse that wasn’t as wonderful as the original, I opened the tall and narrow closet door and began my ascent up the steep and narrow stairs.On my way to the attic.On my way to where I’d find my Christopher, again . . . "
23 " But no woman can live on love when the object of her love turns away and rejects her. She doesn’t come because she can’t face the rejection that she knows you give us. "
24 " That’s the way all life’s battles are won, Jory,” said Chris as I hugged Jory close. “You don’t look at the overall picture. You take one step, then another, and another . . . until you arrive at your destination "
25 " How adaptable we humans were, how willing to suffer through any horror, any adjustment, any deprivations just to gain those few minutes of priceless joy. "
26 " Fate didn’t choose the unloved, the derelicts, the unneeded or unwanted. Fate was a bodiless form with a cruel hand that reached out randomly, carelessly, and seized up with ruthlessness. "
27 " difference between handsome and beautiful. Some men can look handsome, but not radiate inner beauty—like you do. You, my love, are beautiful—inside and out. "
28 " Some men can look handsome, but not radiate inner beauty—like you do. You, my love, are beautiful—inside and out. "
29 " The percentages for marriage were much higher for disabled men than for handicapped women. “Women have more compassion than men. Most normal men think more of their own needs. It takes an exceptionally compassionate and understanding man to marry a woman who isn’t physically normal. "
30 " began to pick up the wrappings that had been so carefully applied and so ruthlessly ripped off. Like life, and how carefully we tried to maintain our illusions when things were seldom what they had appeared to be. "
31 " You will just find another craft, another career, and with your family you will find happiness. Isn’t that what life is all about when you come down to the basics? We want someone to love us, to need us, to share our lives . . . and you have all of that. "