“He could not talk himself out of pain any longer. He had no one to be strong for. So finally, he cried. He cried with deep sobs, head bent to the ground, palms pressed to his eyes. He cried so… — Rachel Simon Copy Share Image
“Sometimes you think you know what you want, she said, hugging her children, until you see how much more you can have.” — Rachel Simon Copy Share
“Follow your inclination. It will take you to the thoughts you'd never known you'd had.” — Rachel Simon Copy Share
“Yes, we can all cart our fractured selves along as we move through our lives. But we can choose whether we keep plodding along… — Rachel Simon Copy Share
“And she’d felt an opening in her chest where she hadn’t known anything was closed.” — Rachel Simon Copy Share
“How many other lives are hidden, and hearts are seeking? How many would give anything in the world to be held by the person… — Rachel Simon Copy Share
“Maybe we are all Beths, boarding other people's life journeys, or letting them hop aboard ours. For a while we ride together. A few… — Rachel Simon Copy Share
“There were two kinds of hope: the kind you couldn’t do anything about and the kind you could. And even if the kind you… — Rachel Simon Copy Share
A person comes into the world with a fist-and a grasp. Yes, we are built to fight one another, but also to embrace. How… — Rachel Simon Copy Share
“So you never know when you can get through. p 179 Jack the Bus Driver talking about helping a woman on the bus who… — Rachel Simon Copy Share
A rainy day can actually be a very important day. And a small hope isn't really small if it makes a lost hope less… — Rachel Simon Copy Share
“Then," he says, "as my mind got functioning, everything was just beautiful. There was no right or wrong feeling, no social pressure. I believe… — Rachel Simon Copy Share
“He thought that maybe when you're making your way forward into your life, it just looks higgledy-piggledy, the way, if you were a fly… — Rachel Simon Copy Share
“She’s sad in the way Laura wears glasses and Max has freckles and Beth is retarded. There’s no reason, it’s just the way it… — Rachel Simon Copy Share
