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“ Why did things have to get so backwards in our house? Since she couldn’t be the adult, I knew that it had to be me. But that didn’t stop me from hating it--from wishing it was just over. I’d give anything to be a kid again and not to be the responsible one in the house. It was like I was trapped in a horrible virtual-reality game, except there was no way for me to quit. ”

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A book was mere paper splattered with ink until a reader’s mind gave it life.

~ Elizabeth Langston

Elizabeth Langston Book Reading

My mother sat motionless at the kitchen table, her head cradled on one arm, the other extended toward her ever-present coffee mug. This was going to be another of her bad days. It was hard to pinpoint when I’d given up hope that she would pull herself together--that me being in charge would be a temporary thing. But too many months had passed with nothing changing, except somewhere along the way I’d stopped feeling sympathy for her. Or anger. It was easier to not feel anything where my mother was concerned because then I could never be let down.

~ Elizabeth Langston

Elizabeth Langston Depression Hopeless Mental Illness

Strange how knowing our story had no happy ending had freed us to live in the moment. We weren’t guy and girl. We weren’t damaged and terminal. We were just now.

~ Elizabeth Langston

Elizabeth Langston Disability Friendship Grief Illness

I think it must be one of those things where no one’s wrong and everybody loses.

~ Elizabeth Langston

Elizabeth Langston Failure Separation