Mcfadyen Quotes & Sayings

The truth is, bad things are going to happen somewhere, every single day, and today was just your turn. — Cody McFadyen

You just have to live and love and do your best in both. That's God, and that's heaven, and it's not something we have to wait until we die to find. It's here, now, in all of us. — Cody McFadyen

The First Rule of Mom: Love. The Second Rule of Mom: Feed your offspring. — Cody McFadyen

That's what tears are for, after all. A way for the soul to bleed. Pg. 109 — Cody McFadyen

That I gave a bad blow job." She bats her eyes sweetly. "Will the Big Guy forgive me? I never did it again, and I'm a much better cocksucker now, I promise. — Cody McFadyen

She'd come to understand that God was present for the good and the bad, and it wasn't that He was cruel, but that He knew - goodness was a choice. Rightness was a choice. Free will was the road to salvation, and God wasn't going to make you do the right thing. God's job was to be there if you chose Him, there if you didn't. — Cody McFadyen

The best novels are those that are important without being like medicine; they have something to say, are expansive and intelligent but never forget to be entertaining and to have character and emotion at their centre. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

A large part of being a parent is a constant near certainty that you are screwing it up, and it is comforting to be able to spread the blame around. — Cody McFadyen

The symphony of motherhood, it's about loving with absolute abandon, loving without regard for self, loving with a near totality of being. It's about a passion that could outburn the sun with its brightness. About a depthless hope and a fierce, rending joy. — Cody McFadyen

A long marriage is very unifying, even if it's not ideal, and those old structures must be respected. — Iris Murdoch

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The simple fact is that evil preys on good, and today, good had a bad day. Which brings with it an acceptance of the other side of that argument, that tomorrow might be evil's turn for some rain. And that's called hope. — Cody McFadyen

Life is smoke, plain and simple; we just fool ourselves that it's otherwise. All it takes is one good gust and we float away and disappear, leaving behind only the scent of our passing in the form of memories. — Cody McFadyen

It's hard whenever someone makes the wrong choice that affects others around him, but you can't let that change who you are. — Lisa Harris

His story remains behind, echoing inside me, a tale of impossible choices. — Cody McFadyen

Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. — Barbara Kingsolver

Life is monstrous, but life is beautiful — Cody McFadyen

And you know once a man has fished, or watched the thrushes hovering in flocks over the village in the bright, cool, autumn days, he can never really be a townsman, and to the day of his death he will be drawn to the country. — Anton Chekhov

Drifting away from faith tends to start with the small things, the unintentional things, the seemingly insignificant moments of discontentment. — Kasey Van Norman

Ah, James, our James," she says, sounding wistful. "Can't live with him, can't kill him slowly enough." - Callie (pg. 141) — Cody McFadyen

other people's condiments are depressing. — Abigail Thomas

People ask sometimes, when they get up the courage, what it's like to lose someone you love. I tell them it's hard, and leave it at that.
I could tell them that it's a crucifixion of the heart. I could say that most days after, I screamed without stopping, even as I moved through the city, even with my mouth closed, even though I didn't make a sound. I could tell them I have this dream, every night, and lose him again, every morning.
But, hey, why ruin their day? So I tell them it's hard. That usually seems to satisfy them. — Cody McFadyen

Ritualistic abuse refers to organised abuse that is structured in a ceremonial fashion, often incorporating religious or mythological iconography (McFadyen et al. 1993). The ritualistic activity is typically structured by 'deviant scriptualism', in which abusive groups parody traditional religious symbols and ritual practices (Kent 1993a, 1993b). The majority of cases of ritualistic abuse involve female victims and facilitation by parents (Creighton 1993, Gallagher et al. 1996), although early research on sexual abuse in child-care arrangements emphasised the presence of ritualistic abuse in some cases (Finkelhor and Williams 1988, Waterman et al. 1993). — Michael Salter

Index investing outperforms active management year after year. — Jim Rogers

Love is not about romance or passion. Love is about a state of grace. You experience it when you accept the absolute truth of the other person, both the cruel and the divine, and they accept these things in you, and you find that you still long to share a life with them. To know the worst in another and still want them with all your soul. To know that they feel the same way. It is a sense of security and power. And once you have arrived at this, the richness of romance and passion that appears is not blinding. Instead, it is invulnerable and forever. — Cody McFadyen

Most people can't truly conceive of being in a place where death might be preferable to life. Life is strong. It grips you in many ways, from the beating of your heart, to the sun on your face, to the feel of the ground beneath your feet. It grasps you. — Cody McFadyen

Grief is like that sometimes. Like water, it finds any opening, forces itself through any crack until it explodes, inexorable. — Cody McFadyen

I'm sure I look a wreck. But he's the one who wrecked me so he may as well take a good long look at what he's done. — Monica Murphy

She doesn't speak, and I say nothing more. We just stare at each other, letting the tears roll down our cheeks. That's what tears are for, after all. A way for the soul to bleed. — Cody McFadyen

You can love the ocean, and many do, but don't expect it to love you back. It's too forever — Cody McFadyen

I'll sing forever and never hear a word. — Cody McFadyen

It's about purpose. About always coming back to being kind to another being instead of trying to get something from them. — Dakota Lane

One of the gifts of a long marriage is the ability to communicate anything - from mild displeasure to the meaning of life - with a single glance. It's something you develop in the process of mixing your soul with your spouse's, if you're willing to mix your soul. — Cody McFadyen

As much as we might like to break, we're really only made to bend. — Cody McFadyen

Having a ten-year-old daughter can be like living with a fairy. Something magical. — Cody McFadyen

Music is a rainbow that captures our sorrows. — Taressa Klays

This is the thing, I think often, that never occurs to you when you consider what it would be like to lose someone you love. That you would miss not just the flowers and kisses, but the totality of the experience. You miss the failures and little evils with as much desperation as you miss being held in the middle of the night. I wish he were here now, and I was kissing him. I wish he were here now, and I was betraying him. Either would be fine, so fine, as long as he was here. — Cody McFadyen

Real people are messy and complicated and generally inconvenient, but at least they are there, — Cody McFadyen