Jennifer Brown Quotes

Some days making it to the end of the day is quite the victory. -- Bea

you can get past a mistake, but it's much harder to get past being a cruel person.

At one time it really felt like forever might happen for us.

Why shouldn't Mom trust me, Dad" Why are you so determined to make me out to be the bad guy all the time?" I stared at the side of his face, willing him to make eye contact. He didn't. "I've been doing really good late and you don't even care.""Yet you still managed to get into trouble tonight," he said."You have no idea what happened tonight," I said, my voice ratcheting up a notch. "All you know is that, because I was involved, I'm somehow guilty of something. You could at least pretend to care, you know. You could at least try to understand."Dad gave a sardonic little laugh. "I'll tell you what I understand," he said. "I understand that when you're left to your own devices you get into trouble, that's what I understand. I understand I was trying to have a happy, restful evening with Briley and once again you screwed it up.

I couldn't make myself imagine Dad holding some creamy-faced baby, cooing at it, telling it he loved it. Taking it to baseball games. Living some life he'd probably consider his 'real life,' the one he deserved rather than the one he got.

Because I love you. And I hurt you. I hurt the person I love most in the world, and i will never forgive myself.

Sometimes even stuff you expect to happen can still hurt

Sometimes, in my world where parents hated one another and school was a battleground, it sucked to be me.