Anna Jarzab Quotes

Knowledge.Grace. True union with the divine. I find that sort of prayer so much more difficult than the other, because it requires an extreme emotional and spiritual vulnerability. It's frighting,because we're trained not to expose the weakest parts of ourselves, the things that cause us pain and shame and suffering. It's those same things that often block our access to God
basically, we stand in our own way.

I had a chronic beer-face condition; no matter what I was drinking, I ended up looking like I'd just eaten a live tarantula. It was very sophisticated.

Those last few years were really hard. Miranda's death
it changed her.' 'That's not an excuse,' Neily said. 'No, but it's an explanation.

He said that doubt provided contour to faith, like shading in a drawing, that it allowed you to see what was really there. At the time we were learning how to sketch in art class, I felt like it was the one thing he said that I actually understood.

Best quote page 239: The past doesn't disappear, but it doesn't have to define your future. That's up to you.

Normality is way overrated.

Trust your gut, and don't let fear get the best of you.

All tools are weapons in the hands of the wrong people.

From early childhood, I had been told how smart I was, and throughout my life various people had tried so hard to teach me everything there was to know. But it occurred to me then how negligent they had been in teaching me how to love. I had two example of love in life - my mother's, absolute and over- burdened, the trial of love; and my father's, the cold and ambitious pursuit of meaning in love, the desire to turn it into a product with a worth that could be measured. Of the two options, I had skewed towards the former, disappointed with my father's method, and so I had bestowed a sort of unconditional love on Carly without really understanding what it meant. I wished that just one person had taught me a way to love her less. If I had loved her less, maybe I wouldn't have hated her so much. And maybe then I could have forgiven her.

Perhaps it wasn't age but what you were capable of, the lengths to which you were willing to go to get what you wanted, that mattered most.

My life held endless prospects, and I could've lived it so many different ways.

You have to fight to hold on to the important things.

Well, normal is relative.

There are moments in your life that you will remember forever, no matter how bad your recall, no matter how deep you sink into dementia.

When you're deep undercover like that, you learn pretty quickly that facts aren't people. They're just facts. That's what makes what you're doing–what I did–so difficult. Friends, family…they can just tell when something's not right, even if they never figure out why.

If there's anything I learned from my mother, it's that power makes you just as vulnerable as it makes you strong. People want to use you for it, or take it from you, all the same.

He was a life raft in a sea of assholes.