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Quotes by Anna Jarzab

My mouth hung slightly open, i was getting ready to sat something important. what i wanted to say was: Is so, so sorry. but instead I said, i love you. Only then, when i said it out loud, did i know that it was true.Carly threaded her fingers through mine and i squeezed her hand. She said it back to me, and i was relieved in a way that i wasnt expecting. i didnt know that i needed her to say it until she did. i was so grateful; i leaned down and kissed her fearlessly, which was unlike me. When she kissed me back, i brought my hand up and cupped the nape of her neck, pulling her hair with clumsy fingers. i tried to back off, to apologize for hurting her, but she kept me close, kissing me softly at first, then hard and fast until the lines between us blurred.

Trust your gut, and dont let fear get the best of you.

Knowledge.Grace. True union with the divine. I find that sort of prayer so much more difficult than the other, because it requires an extreme emotional and spiritual vulnerability. Its frighting,because were trained not to expose the weakest parts of ourselves, the things that cause us pain and shame and suffering. Its those same things that often block our access to God-- basically, we stand in our own way.

Perhaps it wasnt age but what you were capable of, the lengths to which you were willing to go to get what you wanted, that mattered most.

My life held endless prospects, and I couldve lived it so many different ways.

He said that doubt provided contour to faith, like shading in a drawing, that it allowed you to see what was really there. At the time we were learning how to sketch in art class, I felt like it was the one thing he said that I actually understood.