7 Quotes by Brenda Vicars

Tilly and I stood, and she wrapped her arms around my waist and laid her head against my shoulder. Her soft little hands patted my back. The embrace was beyond her usual good-bye, and it filled me with awe at her intuitive ability to tune into my emotions. She couldn’t read or do math or work through technical processes like most people her age, but she was always on the pulse-beat of the deep-down real things.

If you have to go to Beauty” – I glanced at the two woman, leaned forward as if to tell Tracey a secret, and whispered – “it’s not so bad.

Mesmerized with the video, I realized that the truth had been there all along. I’d known the girls had jerked the curtain. I’d known that anyone at any time could take a picture. But I could never see myself doing that wacky pose. So, instead of trying to figure out logically how it happened, I resisted believing it actually happened.

Mom knows that BPD can cause her to see people as perfect or evil. She named me Polarity, spanning positive and negative, to remind her that I’m not one or the other.”... “She wanted to be sure that she never judged me the way that borderlines tend to do.

We’re not leaving our daughter in that place.

We, the privileged majority, talk about equality until it comes to our family having to give up something.

Sooner or later, the borderline curtain would again cover the mother I love and blind her to my and Dad’s feelings. But right now, in this moment, we were happy.