Amy Hatvany Quotes

#1. Holding on to resentments is like drinking poison and hoping the other person will die.

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#2. Well, you know what procrastination and masturbation have in common, don't you?" She waits a beat, then answers her own question. "When it comes right down to it, you only end up screwing yourself.

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#3. No one told me that the love I'd feel for my child would be so pervasive and consuming.

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#4. There are some wounds unreachable by words, some sins immune to apology.

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#5. to meet, despite the time, the place, and despite the circumstances.

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#6. I want to rewind the clock, take back the night when the world shattered. I want to erase everything that went wrong.

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#7. Maybe he was too drunk to hear me when I told him to stop. Maybe I didn't say it loudly enough. Maybe I didn't say it enough times.

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#8. The girl I'd been just an hour ago was gone; she'd been obliterated. I had no idea who I was, now.

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#9. I nodded, but I didn't know how to tell her how wrong she was. That it's possible for a man to interpret a woman's initial permission as license to steamroll any boundary she may set after that. That once a woman says yes, it's possible a man might not give a shit when she changes her mind.

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#10. Cancer is tangible. People feel compassion for you if you get cancer. Not so much if you're an alcoholic. And a mother who drinks? Forget it. Straight to hell. Big fat scarlet letter branded on our foreheads for life. Me and Hester Prynne? Same letter, different sins.

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#11. The world is full of seemingly nice guys who assault women. Guys who don't have healthy attitudes about women and sex in general, who see sex as something they are entitled to, who hurt women and don't even know they are doing it because we don't educate our young men on how not to become rapists.

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#12. Humiliation is about shame. Becoming humble is about being of use to others. It helps you get off the self-pity pot and stop wallowing around in your own crap.

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#13. No, I thought. No way. I love her too much. I would never do that. And then again, those two words, her voice, exploding inside my head: "Tyler, wait!

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#14. being a good mother does not mean being perfect every single moment. we screw up. we get mad, we drink too much, eat too much, yell too much. a good mother learns from her mistakes and does what she can to not let them happen over and over.

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#15. I felt numb, I felt empty. I was a shell, an abandoned chrysalis, a tomb lying in wait for the dead

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