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Before I Let You Go Before I Let You Go by Kelly Rimmer
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“It’s funny how every single thing in your life can shatter with a single decision; and not a decision I had any control over. Everything is suddenly broken, and there is nothing I can do to fix it.”
Kelly Rimmer, Before I Let You Go
“We have to take joy where we find it, even on the worst days.”
Kelly Rimmer, Before I Let You Go
“Why do I rail only against the things that help me, and never against my habit towards self-destruction?”
Kelly Rimmer, Before I Let You Go
“Addiction is, in that way, just like love - in the early moments, you don't see the potential for it to bring you pain - it's just something you slide into between laughs and smiles and moments of bliss. It's something that feels like a shield, until you realize it's actually a warhead, and it's pointed right at you.”
Kelly Rimmer, Before I Let You Go
“just like love—in the early moments, you don’t see the potential for it to bring you pain—it’s just something you slide into between laughs and smiles and moments of bliss. It’s something that feels like a shield, until you realize it’s actually a warhead, and it’s pointed right at you.”
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“You love like that only once in a lifetime—you can love from a place of innocence only once. It always leads to the deepest hurt, and after that, you’re changed and hardened by it.”
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tags: love
“Sing me ‘Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star.’” “Twinkle, twinkle, little star, do you know how loved you are? In the morning, in the night, I’ll love you with all my might… Twinkle, twinkle, little star, do you know how loved you are?”
Kelly Rimmer, Before I Let You Go
“You love like that only once in a lifetime--you can love from a place of innocence only once. It always leads to the deepest hurt, and after that, you're changed and hardened by it.”
Kelly Rimmer, Before I Let You Go
“My experience is that addiction is always related to some disconnection—perceived or real—often rooted deep in some historical trauma. It takes an almost superhuman strength to overcome a narcotics addiction, because it takes an almost superhuman strength to look honestly at your past and yourself and ask—how can I heal?”
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“It’s remarkable how one person’s presence can disrupt every little thing that is ordinarily secure.”
Kelly Rimmer, Before I Let You Go
“I haven’t put up with Annie’s shenanigans for all these years because I’m an idiot, I have put up with them because I just couldn’t give up on the person I knew she could be.”
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“concerned for. And then there’s”
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“Mary slips her handbag onto her shoulder and she straightens her suit jacket as
I digest this, and then she adds very quietly, “If you ask me, if the state really
wanted to help women like your sister, wouldn’t they put the thousands of
dollars they’ll spend on her trial and incarcerating her into early intervention
programs, or research into addiction? Or Lord, if it’s really all about the baby—
wouldn’t you funnel the funds into setting up a better foster care system or
maybe some parenting classes that actually help?”
“So why don’t they?” I ask, and Mary sighs and shakes her head.
“Well, it’s a little bit like this. Half the town is on fire, and the townspeople
are all so busy hollering for the fire brigade that no one thinks to find out why
people are still playing with matches.”
Kelly Rimmer, Before I Let You Go
“Then it hits me: the difference is responsibility. A friend can offer support, even advice...but a friendship is a two-way street, and friends hold none of the responsibility for each other’s actions. Being Annie’s friend means letting go of my ownership of her outcomes.”
Kelly Rimmer, Before I Let You Go
“Hating for the very first time is black dye seeping into white fabric—you can scrub and scrub and scrub and wash and wash and wash, but there will always be a stain—the fabric forever changed.”
Kelly Rimmer, Before I Let You Go