Quote by Jennifer Brown Download Open image ““You may not have pulled the trigger, but you helped cause the tragedy.”” — Jennifer Brown ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Sometimes it takes a tragedy to make you realize there was so much you should have done differently.” — Chelsea Landon Copy Share Image
“They say that one of the reasons for tragedy is that you learn important lessons from it.” — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“That was the thing about tragedy. It was just sitting there, keeping you company, waiting. And you had absolutely no idea.” — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
“Tragedy did that—brought people together in ways you could never force.” — Nancy Naigle Copy Share Image
“The situation was a mess. It's way easier when you have someone to blame. We want a victim and a villain and a simple… — Susan Juby Copy Share Image
“That even in the face of the most shocking tragedy of my life, I could exert some control over its impact.” — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
“I realize now that tragedy spares no one; it just courts each of us differently.” — Gwendolyn M. Plano Copy Share Image
“Maybe when we face a tragedy, someone, somewhere is preventing a bigger tragedy from happening.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“Knowing there's a reason for what happens also saves us from being filled with blame.” — Mira Kirshenbaum Copy Share Image
“Tragedy made you petty and spiteful. It didn’t give you any great knowledge or insight. She didn’t understand a damned thing about life except… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
“Tragedy never took its full chunk out of you right way. It always took a while to hit you head on, and sink in… — R.K. Lilley Copy Share Image
“I've been thinking a lot about the word "everything." Whenever something horrible happens, you hear people say they "lost everything." They lost their house or their car or their stuff or whatever, and to them it feels like everything. But they have no idea what it's like to lose everything. I thought I knew, but now I realize even I… — Jennifer Brown Copy Share
“I couldn't make myself imagine Dad holding some creamy-faced baby, cooing at it, telling it he loved it. Taking it to baseball games. Living… — Jennifer Brown Copy Share Image
“Why are you so determined to make me out to be the bad guy all the time?” I stared at the side of his… — Jennifer Brown Copy Share Image
“I didn't say anything at all, because somehow saying nothing seemed more humane than giving him all these reassurances.” — Jennifer Brown Copy Share Image
“...But would that be enough? Because at the moment it felt like it could never be enough. People needed more than a place to… — Jennifer Brown Copy Share Image
“I thought everything I knew about you might have been a lie, but since meeting him and your parents, I've realized that the parts of you I knew weren't untrue; they were only part-truths. There were lots of things about you that I didn't know, and learning those things has actually been comforting in a way. They make me feel… — Jennifer Brown Copy Share
“I don’t know if it’s possible to take hate away from people. Not even people like us, who’ve seen firsthand what hate can do.… — Jennifer Brown Copy Share Image
“Just concentrate on being in the moment”, he said. “Don’t read into things. See what’s really there ok?” — Jennifer Brown Copy Share Image
“I understand that it would be easier for you to think of him as a hero. But, Valerie, he did kill a lot of… — Jennifer Brown Copy Share Image
“It was one of the constants of life. You are born, you die, you stand up when the bus doors open.” — Jennifer Brown Copy Share Image