I'm Sorry

I'm sorry I didn't love my step-mother.

I'm sorry for the time I puked my way from my bedroom to the bathroom.

I'm sorry my eyeglasses kept breaking.

I'm sorry I went with mom. I'm sorry I went back with dad.

I'm sorry I wanted to live with my mom when I was 12.

I'm really sorry I didn't do better at staying in touch with my family after I moved.

I apologize for going boy crazy, letting my grades slip and quitting the school band.

I'm sorry for my blind, ugly left eye.

I'm sorry I got pregnant at 16. And I'm sorry I had an abortion. I apologize for not being able to make everyone happy in that situation, and for not telling certain people about it, and for telling others.

I'm sorry you couldn't handle it.

I wish I could have understood geometry and chemistry better. I'm sorry I failed, and that I had to take extra classes in order to graduate.

It sucks that I never got to get a driver's license because of my crappy eyes. Sorry I can't drive and always have to ask for rides, not only for myself, but for my kids too.

I'm sorry I haven't finished earning a college degree.

I'm sorry for falling in love with a Diabetic and making you cry over everything that happens to us.

I'm sorry for making a very important decision for my family and that you put up walls and are still punishing me for it.

I'm sorry I don't like spinach, asparagus, guava, hummus or Pepsi.

I'm sorry you don't see how much you've hurt me, for how I've hurt you, for no longer trusting you, for still trusting you, for saying things I shouldn't, because you say things you shouldn't.

I apologize for being overweight. I'm sorry you don't like your body and feel the need to make me feel bad about mine.

I'm sorry I don't wear make-up or paint my nails. Sorry I don't know what's hip.

I'm sorry you make too many passive-aggressive comments.

Sorry my house isn't immaculate and that I've never had a home big enough to keep a guest bedroom.

I'm sorry for when my children misbehave and you judge me as their mother.

I'm sorry I don't agree with your politics, that I think everyone should be treated fairly, each of us has value and I don't think the death penalty is cool.

I'm sorry you piss me off. I'm sorry I piss you off.

I apologize if I don't live up to your expectations, if who I am bothers you.

But then again, all these things make up ME and maybe I'm not sorry for any of it. Maybe you should be sorry.

I opened up a new post and this is what
came out in response to Eden's prompt:
Sorry? Spill.

Ten Quotable Quotes

I think I may have actually felt GIDDY when I saw what this week's Listicle theme was.

I LOVE me some good quotes!

They inspire, encourage, cheer, enlighten, can perfectly encapsulate a moment and convey exactly what you wish you would've said.  Luckily, someone already did!

“Somewhere in the world there is an epigram for every dilemma.”

–Hendrik Willem van Loon

I have a dream that I will one day say something worth quoting.

What?  It could happen.

My favorite quote website is The Quote Garden.  It's where I get 99% of the quotes I use.

First, my most favorite-y favorite quotes....

1.

"Go forth in confidence and go forth in peace. For there are angels to your left and angels to your right, angels in front of you and angels behind you, angels above you and angels below. You are loved, and you are not alone..."

~ Marianne Williamson

2.

"We are not put here to audition one another, put someone on trial, or use other people to gratify our own ego needs. We are not here to fix, change or belittle another person. We are here to support, forgive and heal one another."

-- Marianne Williamson, in A Return to Love

3.

"I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read and all the friends I want to see."
~ John Buroughs

4.

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."

 ~ Dr. Seuss

Now just plain ole fave quotes....

5.

"If the sun refused to shine, I would still be loving you. When mountains crumble to the sea, there will still be you and me."

~ Led Zeppelin"Thank You"

6.

"A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be."

~ Douglas Pagels

7.

"Making the decision to have a child is momentous.  It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body."

 ~ Elizabeth Stone

8.

“Ever morning, until you dead in the ground, you gone have to make this decision. You gone have to ask yourself, "Am I gone believe what them fools say about me today?”

and

“You is kind. You is smart. You is important.”

― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

9.

"A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person."

~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook

And last, amazing words from a fellow blogger that made me go WHOA...

10.

"I broke, finally, when he got cancer. I'm not ok and never will be. It's actually quite liberating.  I've learnt to wear the world like a loose garment. Simultaneously waiting for the next terrible and extraordinary thing to happen. I will not be disappointed.  I am not who I will be tomorrow."

~ Eden Riley, Edenland

Bonus: I just recently saw this on Facebook....

Gotta love Albert!