Best 12 quotes of Brenda Shaughnessy on MyQuotes

Death and life are, for most of us, too complex to comprehend, but Alex Lemon can pretty casually, accurately, and marvelously correlate them to heavy metal and birthday cake.

I came to see that what constitutes strength is not just a muscle or will. It can also include the most desperate vulnerability, the saddest heartache, the lightest, sweetest laughter.

I've been melted into something too easy to spill. I make more and more of myself in order to make more and more of the baby. He takes it, this making. And somehow he's made more of me, too.

Strength means...acknowledging each of those feelings, your questions and ideas and faith and terror, and meeting what comes with the full force of your heart.

Strength means honoring your entire range of emotion, even your despair and heartbreak.

What if all possible pain was only the grief of truth?

You are not broken. You break again and again because that's what breaking means. To be whole.

be strange to yourself in your love, your grief

How anyone becomes herself/is a mystery.

Isn’t blood a woman’s ink?

Secret, smug believers! God never gives you more than you can bear, they like to say, as if the strong should be punished for their strength: We can bear it. So we got it. But what about my baby? How weak does a newborn have to be to escape God's burdens?

When a woman you love hits you on the head with a book you love, is that love?