31 Quotes by Bette Lee Crosby

The sad thing is, regardless of what children do or say, they’re still your children, and you don’t stop loving them. Yes, there may be occasions when you scream and yell until you’re blue in the face, but even then, you don’t stop loving them.

When the preacher says it’s for better or worse, you’re so blinded by the possibility of better you fail to see the reality of worse.

She looked down at the boy and knew her ability to love was not dead. It simply needed a reason to live.

I remind myself that loving my sister means I have to step back and give her the dignity of independence.

I say “I’m fine,” because that’s what you do. When someone asks how you are, you say fine, regardless of whether it’s true.

It’s funny how thinking of somebody other than yourself can help your heart to heal.

She’d bottled herself up like a person already cremated.

As I grow ever closer to the end of my time, I look back at this life and tell you that the only thing I would wish to give up is the regret I’ve carried in my heart for all these years. At long last I have come to realize the things I once counted as regrets were indeed blessings that I was too blind to see.

Being sick robs a person of their health and being poor robs them of life’s luxuries, but being pitied robs them of their will to live.