Take what you've learned and love someone again. Find someone to love and love without condition. This is why we're all here.
Lisa GenovaAnd you, Mom. I loved you. You've asked if i felt and understood that you loved me. of course I did. And you know this. I loved your love because it kept me safe and happy and wanted, and it existed beyond words and hugs and eyes.
Lisa GenovaI smile, loving him for changing with me, for going where my Neglect has taken us, for getting the new me.
Lisa GenovaBut will I always love her? Does my love for her reside in my head or my heart? The scientist in her believed that emotion resulted from complex limbic brain circuitry that was for her, at this very moment, trapped in the trenches of a battle in which there would be no survivors. The mother in her believed that the love she hadd for her daughter was safe from the mayhem in her mind, because it lived in her heart.
Lisa Genova