15 Quotes by Heather King

Was I being groomed for some special mission? What possible purpose could an existence like mine serve? When I wasn’t drinking in crappy bars, I was home by myself reading: a life that was achingly lonely, and yet perversely designed to prevent anybody from ever getting close enough to really know me.

I didn’t want to hear that people lived happily ever after. I wanted to know that other people suffered, too.

I had no idea what time I’d left, how I’d gotten home, who’d been up here, and how long he, she, or they had stayed. Another night, added to the hundreds that had gone before, shrouded in mystery. Really, when you thought about it, it was creepy. My own life was a secret to me.

There's nothing inherently interesting about being a drunk -- in fact, quite the contrary.

I had also pled, the whole year, to be wholly relieved of my romantic attachment; begged to stop loving so much. But I had finally been given to see that my desire was what made me human; that desire was my glory and my cross; that desire had given me a window onto the divine that would sustain me all my life. I had seen at least one person as God must us-for where did my eyes come from but God? - and that is a rare and precious gift.

Life would be vanilla ice cream without 31 flavors of individuality.

Children laugh an average of three hundred or more times a day; adults laugh an average of five times a day. We have a lot of catching up to do.

Know that every mother occasionally feels “at the end of her rope.” When you reach the end of your rope, don’t add guilt to your frustration. No one said motherhood was going to be easy.

There’s nothing inherently interesting about being a drunk – in fact, quite the contrary.