“We would be in each other's lives again. No, he hadn't been the best father, but he was my father, and we loved each other. We needed each other. Though he'd disappointed me countless times through the years, life had… — Liz Murray Copy Share
“No he hadn't been the best father, but he was my father, and we loved each other. We needed each other. Though he'd disappointed me countless times through the years, life had already proven too short for me to hold… — Liz Murray Copy Share Image
“Life has a way of doing that; one minute everything makes sense, the next, things change. People get sick. Families break apart, your friends could close the door on you. The rapid changes I had experienced were hitting me hard as I sat there, and yet sadness wasn't what came up in my gut. Out of nowhere, for whatever reason,… — Liz Murray Copy Share
“Things turning around for me had been the result of my focusing on the few areas in life I could change, and surrendering to the knowledge that there were more more things that I just couldn't make different. I could also choose to carve out a life for myself that was in no way limited by what had already occurred… — Liz Murray Copy Share
There was just so much attention that got focused on my story, and what that created was an opportunity for me to share what… — Liz Murray Copy Share Image
“Wherever you go, you'll make the best of things. Look at your life, you already have... That's why I know you'll be all right...… — Liz Murray Copy Share Image
“I think his paintings are cathartic for him,” she said. “After you experience trauma that deep, you need to do something to heal. Something… — Liz Murray Copy Share Image
“Since as far back as I could remember, I'd felt that Lisa's responses toward me usually bordered on the brink of hostility. Years later, a therapist would explain that growing up with few resources had turned us into competitors- over food, over our parents' love, over everything. At the moment, we were competing for who had the better handle on… — Liz Murray Copy Share
“It's not that we didn't love one another- we did. I just think we didn't know how to be with one another anymore. No one had prepared us for this, for what to do when tragedy breaks up your family. We had no idea what to do when disease took hold, mental illness struck, when Ma died. And we weren't… — Liz Murray Copy Share
“Making these choices [to attend school instead of skipping], as it turned out, wasn't about willpower. I always admired people who “willed” themselves to do something, because I have never felt I was one of them. If sheer will were enough by itself, it would have been enough a long time ago, back on University Avenue, I figured. It wasn't,… — Liz Murray Copy Share
I've learned in my life that you really don't know what's possible until you're already doing it, — Liz Murray Copy Share Image
Shortly after I turned 13, Child Welfare took me into care. I was sent to a residential centre where girls with behavioural problems were… — Liz Murray Copy Share Image
I realized eventually that when I ran out of places to stay and found myself on the D train and in Central Park, I… — Liz Murray Copy Share Image
