Real love isn’t what you feel when you discover a person has a powerful name.
It’s what you’re willing to give when you believe they have nothing to offer you at all.” He had no answer.
There wasn’t one.
I felt no rush of triumph as they walked him out.
I felt only a deep and total exhaustion, the tiredness of a person who has finally set down a weight she carried so long she’d forgotten it was ever optional to put it down.
Chapter 17 — The Silver Star
In a quiet room away from the noise, a doctor examined my daughter and told me what I most needed to hear: that she would heal.
The hurt was to baby teeth that would have made way for others in time; she would need a little dental work, and — this was the part that mattered more — the patient, unhurried help of people who knew how to tend the kind of wound that doesn’t show.
Bodies mend quickly at five.
It’s the fear that takes longer, and the fear was what we would spend the coming years teaching her to set down.