32 Quotes by Tiffany Baker

She never understood that love – especially that of a child – was the most necessary weight you can endure in life, even if it hurts, even if it tugs bags under the skin of your eyes. Without it, the soul skitters to the edge of the world and teeters there, confused.

Not like me, who would have given anything to shed my cumbersome skin and bones, stripping myself down to marrow, to nothing more than a gambler’s heart, which beat fast and true and still believed that somewhere out there, a deck was stacked entirely in my favor.

So often, we believe we are alone in the privacy of our fantasies, but that is a delusion as well – and perhaps the most dangerous kind. For in letting ourselves forget about the common threads of our innermost wishes, we erode our foundations and lose the keystone of our souls.

But it’s easy to solve the past in the present, and when you do, you sometimes forget to leave room for forgiveness.

The body is just the body. It has it’s own structures, it’s own laws. It’s a thing unto itself. When it breaks down, that’s it.