Someone Else's Shoes

by Jojo Moyes

“How many of the decisions you make each day are because you actually want to do something, and how many are to avoid the consequences of not doing it?”

Strength—real strength—is not doing what someone asks you, necessarily. Strength is turning up every day to a situation that is intolerable, unbearable even, just to support the people you love. Strength is being in that terrible room hour after hour even though every cell in your body is telling you it’s too much for you to cope with.”