17 Quotes by Suzanne Hayes

We're all so multifaceted, and it's impossible to see all the sides at once.

Silence is a powerful tool.

I'm trying to tell him everything will be all right, but how can I say it with a straight face? My son's no idiot. He knows when I'm lying. The medicine won't taste bad.The bath is not hot.Daddy will be safe.Lies.

There is no reason for him to be in a strange land, the grim reaper holding him close, saying, "Yes, today is the day," or "No, not yet.

Think about it this way--our actions speak truth our words cannot.

Tonight started innocently enough. Most terrible things do, right?

If I shut everything else out and filled the room with memories, the past could become the present, and I could live there, with him. I would never leave.

Or you could simply throw down a few inches of compost and fake it. That's what we do, isn't it? Do the best with what we have? It's not lying, dear. Don't look at it that way. It's hopeful pretending. Consider it your patriotic duty.

We don't need to have the answers. We'll never have them. They'll come and go and change. And all we can do is figure out the best way to behave when life comes at us. Even if society says it isn't right. Right is so subjective, after all.