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> [ “Ronan taught me that children do not exist to honor their parents; their parents exist to honor them. \[...\] Ronan was mine but he never belonged to me. This is not an issue of ownership. A child is not a couch.” ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emily-rapp/ronan-taught-me-that-children-do-not-exist-to-honor-their-parents/)

[Emily Rapp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emily-rapp/)

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## More by Emily Rapp

> [ “Ronan taught me that children do not exist to honor their parents; their parents exist to honor them. \[...\] Ronan was mine but he… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emily-rapp/ronan-taught-me-that-children-do-not-exist-to-honor-their-parents/)

[Emily Rapp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emily-rapp/)

> [“Why are we so afraid of the body? Is it because it's a mess, unpredictable, mortal, unreliable? We take pains to perfect it, to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emily-rapp/why-are-we-so-afraid-of-the-body-is-it-because-it-s-a-mess/)

[Emily Rapp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emily-rapp/)

> [“And although I no longer identified with the stringency or dogma of organized Christian religion, I remained drawn to the compassion and sense of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emily-rapp/and-although-i-no-longer-identified-with-the-stringency-or-dogma-of/)

[Emily Rapp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emily-rapp/)

> [“Tucked inside the moments of this great sadness - this feeling of being punctured, scrambling and stricken - were also moments of the brightest,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emily-rapp/tucked-inside-the-moments-of-this-great-sadness-this-feeling-of-being/)

[Emily Rapp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emily-rapp/)

> [“You can, for just a moment, fuse grief like a bone, but the memory of the ability to bend lingers inside, like an itch…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emily-rapp/you-can-for-just-a-moment-fuse-grief-like-a-bone-but-the-memory-of/)

[Emily Rapp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emily-rapp/)

> [“The standards for what is "normal" have become so formalized and yet so restrictive that people need a break from that horrible feeling of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emily-rapp/the-standards-for-what-is-normal-have-become-so-formalized-and-yet-so/)

[Emily Rapp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emily-rapp/)

> [“Grief weighs nothing but you still have to drag it around.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emily-rapp/grief-weighs-nothing-but-you-still-have-to-drag-it-around/)

[Emily Rapp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emily-rapp/)

> [If we remembered everyday that we could lose someone at any moment, we would love them more fiercely and freely, and without fear- not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emily-rapp/if-we-remembered-everyday-that-we-could-lose-someone-at-any-moment-we/)

[Emily Rapp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emily-rapp/)

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