14 Quotes by Christina McDonald

Being a parent is one long process of daring yourself to let go. Sometimes worry and love and control, all get jumbled up until you can't see the difference.

He had the air of someone who imagines he can negotiate with gravity.

Trust, I’d learned, was the greatest gift you could give, the greatest gift to receive. The belief that a person wouldn’t betray you required a strength and confidence.

But there are no redos in life. You can’t go back and make things better. All you can do is live with it and move forward.

You don’t have to be right one hundred percent of the time to show you love someone.

Suicide of a parent, that type of abandonment, it did things to a person. It didn’t take a shrink to tell me that I didn’t trust people to stay because my mom had promised she’d be there and then wasn’t.

Sometimes the rest of your life arrived by simply saying good-bye.

To feel love was to feel fear – you just couldn’t let it dictate your life. Love was a risk, but it opened up a world of possibility, one you would never experience without it.

Loss, death, a broken heart, no matter how figurative, was unbearable. There was never a guarantee you wouldn’t lose those you loved.