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Counting by 7s QUOTES

Counting by 7s QUOTES

1 " This is why the deepest form of pain comes out as silence. "

― Holly Goldberg Sloan , Counting by 7s

2 " I cut all my words out. My heart was too full of them. "

― Holly Goldberg Sloan , Counting by 7s

3 " Pattie saw grief. Her eyes focused on a version of her own young self, and so many other children in Vietnam who grew up without parents, some abandoned because of their ethnicity, others because of tragedy. And her arms reached out wide. "

― Holly Goldberg Sloan , Counting by 7s

4 " I force myself to think of anything but the one thing that I'm actually always thinking about. And that is so exhausting that I sleep more than I ever have. "

― Holly Goldberg Sloan , Counting by 7s

5 " I somehow make it through the first month. I dress and brush my teeth when they tell me to. And I experience the hollow feeling of complete loss, which is emptiness. "

― Holly Goldberg Sloan , Counting by 7s

6 " Dysphagia is the medical term for not being able to swallow, and I know that there are two kinds of dysphagia: oropharyngeal and esophageal.

But maybe there is also a third kind of dysphagia that comes when your heart breaks into pieces.

I can't swallow because I have that kind. "

― Holly Goldberg Sloan , Counting by 7s

7 " For someone grieving, moving forward is the challenge. Because after extreme loss, you want to go back. "

― Holly Goldberg Sloan , Counting by 7s

8 " She said they needed to put down a real root system to achieve their potential "

― Holly Goldberg Sloan , Counting by 7s

9 " At least it's working out because Cheddar is sort of obsessed with me, or at least very interested, which in the world of felines counts as obsessive behavior. "

― Holly Goldberg Sloan , Counting by 7s

10 " It would look pretty messed up to be a social worker and have dried kid blood as a permanent stain in your vehicle. "

― Holly Goldberg Sloan , Counting by 7s

11 " [T]he deepest form of pain comes out as silence. "

― Holly Goldberg Sloan , Counting by 7s

12 " Every person has lots of ingredients to make them what is always a one-in-a-kind creation. We are all imperfect genetic stews. "

― Holly Goldberg Sloan , Counting by 7s

13 " Connectedness. One thing leads to another. Often in unexpected ways. "

― Holly Goldberg Sloan , Counting by 7s

14 " I usually found so-called "small talk" boring. I like "large talk", which is more about theories and concepts, mixed with facts and known quantities. "

― Holly Goldberg Sloan , Counting by 7s

15 " What we expect rarely occurs; what we don't expect is what happens. "

― Holly Goldberg Sloan , Counting by 7s

16 " And just being there is ninety-nine percent of what matters when your world falls apart. "

― Holly Goldberg Sloan , Counting by 7s

17 " I’m not brave; it’s just that all other choices have been thrown out the window. "

― Holly Goldberg Sloan , Counting by 7s

18 " The Madagascar show had nothing like that. It focused on a group of monkeys who looked like squirrels in racoon costumes. "

― Holly Goldberg Sloan , Counting by 7s

19 " It was ironic that the kids who didn't go to school would be punished with the threat of being kicked out. "

― Holly Goldberg Sloan , Counting by 7s

20 " When you care about other people, it takes the spotlight of your own drama. "

― Holly Goldberg Sloan , Counting by 7s