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> [“All gifts are riddles, all lives/are in the middle of mother-lives.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brenda-shaughnessy/all-gifts-are-riddles-all-lives-are-in-the-middle-of-mother-lives/)

[Brenda Shaughnessy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brenda-shaughnessy/)

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## More by Brenda Shaughnessy

> [What if all possible pain was only the grief of truth?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brenda-shaughnessy/what-if-all-possible-pain-was-only-the-grief-of-truth/)

[Brenda Shaughnessy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brenda-shaughnessy/)

> [I've been melted into something too easy to spill. I make more and more of myself in order to make more and more of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brenda-shaughnessy/i-ve-been-melted-into-something-too-easy-to-spill-i-make-more-and/)

[Brenda Shaughnessy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brenda-shaughnessy/)

> [How anyone becomes herself/is a mystery.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brenda-shaughnessy/how-anyone-becomes-herself-is-a-mystery/)

[Brenda Shaughnessy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brenda-shaughnessy/)

> [“Where can we go if not to each other, resenting every step?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brenda-shaughnessy/where-can-we-go-if-not-to-each-other-resenting-every-step/)

[Brenda Shaughnessy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brenda-shaughnessy/)

> [Death and life are, for most of us, too complex to comprehend, but Alex Lemon can pretty casually, accurately, and marvelously correlate them to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brenda-shaughnessy/death-and-life-are-for-most-of-us-too-complex-to-comprehend-but-alex/)

[Brenda Shaughnessy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brenda-shaughnessy/)

> [“All gifts are riddles, all lives/are in the middle of mother-lives.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brenda-shaughnessy/all-gifts-are-riddles-all-lives-are-in-the-middle-of-mother-lives/)

[Brenda Shaughnessy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brenda-shaughnessy/)

> [“Secret, smug believers! God never gives you more than you can bear, they like to say, as if the strong should be punished for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brenda-shaughnessy/secret-smug-believers-god-never-gives-you-more-than-you-can-bear-they/)

[Brenda Shaughnessy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brenda-shaughnessy/)

> [“Would I dance with you? Both forever and rather die. / It would be like dying, yes. Yes I would.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brenda-shaughnessy/would-i-dance-with-you-both-forever-and-rather-die-it-would-be-like/)

[Brenda Shaughnessy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brenda-shaughnessy/)

> [You are not broken. You break again and again because that's what breaking means. To be whole.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brenda-shaughnessy/you-are-not-broken-you-break-again-and-again-because-that-s-what/)

[Brenda Shaughnessy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brenda-shaughnessy/)

> [“I'm Perfect at Feelings, so I have no problem telling you why you cried over the third lost metal or the mousetrap. I knew…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brenda-shaughnessy/i-m-perfect-at-feelings-so-i-have-no-problem-telling-you-why-you/)

[Brenda Shaughnessy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brenda-shaughnessy/)

> [I came to see that what constitutes strength is not just a muscle or will. It can also include the most desperate vulnerability, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brenda-shaughnessy/i-came-to-see-that-what-constitutes-strength-is-not-just-a-muscle-or/)

[Brenda Shaughnessy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brenda-shaughnessy/)

> [Strength means honoring your entire range of emotion, even your despair and heartbreak.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brenda-shaughnessy/strength-means-honoring-your-entire-range-of-emotion-even-your/)

[Brenda Shaughnessy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brenda-shaughnessy/)

> [“It seems unlikely that so much literature could be made from twenty-six letters. Doesn't it seem it could all be boiled down to one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brenda-shaughnessy/it-seems-unlikely-that-so-much-literature-could-be-made-from-twenty/)

[Brenda Shaughnessy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brenda-shaughnessy/)

> [“(from A Love Story, Eight Takes) 8 As it turns out, there is a wrong way to tell this story. I was wrong to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brenda-shaughnessy/from-a-love-story-eight-takes-8-as-it-turns-out-there-is-a-wrong-way/)

[Brenda Shaughnessy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brenda-shaughnessy/)

> [“If the two meanings of 'heart' are 'center' and 'part,' then the word 'art' also forms a perplexing doubleness: it is something human-made with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brenda-shaughnessy/if-the-two-meanings-of-heart-are-center-and-part-then-the-word-art/)

[Brenda Shaughnessy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brenda-shaughnessy/)

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