2021-01-01

When We Believed in Mermaids

Author: Barbara O'Neal

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I do know that it’s hard to be the children of parents who are obsessed with each other. (Location 99)

Not everything is a disaster waiting to happen, I tell myself. Although, strictly speaking, it is. (Location 430)

Oh, I do not want to like him so much. Lust, yes. Not like. I don’t know him at all, but in this gesture I feel the heart of a lion, big and inclusive and wise. It tips open the closed doors of my life. (Location 1798)
“There are seasons of darkness, yes? Loss and sadness all around.” He tightens his grip. “But if you are patient, the circle turns, and then there is happiness all around, everything good, everyone happy.” He flings a hand out, palm up, as if scattering glitter. “My friend, he just forgot that happiness is part of living too.” (Location 1973)

A girl without a mother who protects her is a girl at the mercy of the world. (Location 2386)

“Love is not always destructive,” he says quietly, and slides a finger up my shin. “Sometimes love creates.” (Location 2966)
you don’t die. You just … begin again.” (Location 2982)

it’s not about comparison, as my counselor used to say. My pain is my pain. (Location 3622)

it’s not about comparison, as my counselor used to say. My pain is my pain. (Location 3622)

“Your quest is powerful. You needn’t apologize for the space it takes.” (Location 3758)

“In the whisper of the waves, I hear your name In the caress of the sunlight, I feel your lips In the hands of the wind, I feel your touch Everywhere, in everything, there you are I will not forget you, sweet love.” (Location 4634)
The human body is a delicate, amazing creation. It takes almost nothing to completely destroy it, and yet it takes a lot. (Location 5167)