“There is a way to be good again...”
“Let me pass this way but once and do what good I can, I shall not pass this way again.”
“I still believed he'd love me again somehow, love me that intense, thick way he did, the way that made everything good.”
“Reinforced to me again and again was how I was a ‘brave girl’ for not crying, a ‘good girl’ for not complaining, and soon I began defining myself this way, equating strength with silence.”
“God still has a way of wringing good out of evil. History has proven time and time again that unmerited suffering is redemptive.”
“But then again, maybe bad things happen because it’s the only way we can keep remembering what good is supposed to look like.”