Top 22 Cody McFadyen Quotes
#1. That's what tears are for, after all. A way for the soul to bleed. Pg. 109
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#2. She doesn't speak, and I say nothing more. We just stare at each other, letting the tears roll down our cheeks. That's what tears are for, after all. A way for the soul to bleed.
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#3. Most people can't truly conceive of being in a place where death might be preferable to life. Life is strong. It grips you in many ways, from the beating of your heart, to the sun on your face, to the feel of the ground beneath your feet. It grasps you.
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#4. His story remains behind, echoing inside me, a tale of impossible choices.
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#5. A large part of being a parent is a constant near certainty that you are screwing it up, and it is comforting to be able to spread the blame around.
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#6. Having a ten-year-old daughter can be like living with a fairy. Something magical.
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#7. Life is smoke, plain and simple; we just fool ourselves that it's otherwise. All it takes is one good gust and we float away and disappear, leaving behind only the scent of our passing in the form of memories.
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#8. Real people are messy and complicated and generally inconvenient, but at least they are there,
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#9. One of the gifts of a long marriage is the ability to communicate anything - from mild displeasure to the meaning of life - with a single glance. It's something you develop in the process of mixing your soul with your spouse's, if you're willing to mix your soul.
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#10. The symphony of motherhood, it's about loving with absolute abandon, loving without regard for self, loving with a near totality of being. It's about a passion that could outburn the sun with its brightness. About a depthless hope and a fierce, rending joy.
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#11. As much as we might like to break, we're really only made to bend.
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#12. The truth is, bad things are going to happen somewhere, every single day, and today was just your turn.
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#14. That I gave a bad blow job." She bats her eyes sweetly. "Will the Big Guy forgive me? I never did it again, and I'm a much better cocksucker now, I promise.
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#15. Ah, James, our James," she says, sounding wistful. "Can't live with him, can't kill him slowly enough." - Callie (pg. 141)
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#16. You just have to live and love and do your best in both. That's God, and that's heaven, and it's not something we have to wait until we die to find. It's here, now, in all of us.
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#17. Grief is like that sometimes. Like water, it finds any opening, forces itself through any crack until it explodes, inexorable.
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#20. You can love the ocean, and many do, but don't expect it to love you back. It's too forever
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#21. The First Rule of Mom: Love. The Second Rule of Mom: Feed your offspring.
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#22. The simple fact is that evil preys on good, and today, good had a bad day. Which brings with it an acceptance of the other side of that argument, that tomorrow might be evil's turn for some rain. And that's called hope.
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