So I leave proof of my existence behind me like a snail trail with the small hope that years of talking at me will someday soften her enough to talk with me, that she'll finally pull the knife from my chest and say yes, we are better off without him. That what happened wasn't my fault and from now on she will thrust herself between me and danger, and shout NO.
Laura WiessTags: inspirational meredith
How can you make someone love you when they won't? How long are you supposed to keep trying?
Laura WiessSometimes the hardest people to love are the ones who need it the most.
Laura WiessNever say God - and the Beatles - don't have great timing.
Laura WiessThere are worse things in life to be than fat, and one of them is ignorant. Another is prejudiced. Another is deliberately cruel.
Laura WiessHow about giving your old man a break here, huh, Chirp?"
"Chirp is dead," I hear myself say and watch the flat words destroy his pleasure. "You killed her, and now you have to deal with me because I'm what's left.
You can't come wandering around in at all hours of the night looking like you've been-"
"Raped?" "Not to worry, Estertown's been safe for three years now, Dad.
No," I shout, because my mother doesn't know what I like anymore. "I don't eat things that bleed. Just cheese with lettuce or tomato and mayo. No dead fish or animals, please."
"You see what I have to put up with?" my mother says.
Meredith's a big girl. She knows how babies are made, don't you, Mer?"
I nod, numb and weary. "'Course I do. Same guy that taught you taught me.
The ache starts in my chest and spreads through my veins. The abuse I can handle; it's the happiness that cripples.
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