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There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.’”
It felt unfair that no matter how big the life, we all reduce to the same small pile of ash.
while every living, breathing human carried the weight of grief and guilt in some form, only a few created a permanent harbor for it.
“I’m sorry” was never on time. It was always too late.
“Life is full of plot twists you can’t control,
“Happily ever after never happens when people do what they’re supposed to do, love. It’s when they deviate that the plot really gets interesting.”
“We ignore what we don’t want to change.”
“There’s as much value in the word ‘no’ as there is in the word ‘yes.’ Maybe even more, because we, as women, so rarely say no.”
“Turns out, saying no sucks,” she said to Eva. “That’s why so many people won’t say it. They’d rather spare themselves the pain than walk through it to something better.”
“Don’t be naive. We’re all characters, June. If something’s not working, it’s time to reimagine yourself.
Sometimes, we get so stuck in who we think we are, we forget to take in our lives from another view. You aren’t a reflection, June, like a flat mirror. You are a three-dimensional person. You’ve just gotten used to seeing only one side of yourself.”
“I’m a mess,” June sighed. “Potentially dead inside. Definitely in need of a therapist.” “Sounds like you’re human.
She was selfish and irrevocably broken, and she didn’t deserve any sort of kindness
Being perfect doesn’t make a life worth honoring.
Denial is easier than self-evaluation and vulnerability.
it’s never too late to reimagine your life.
He was her destination, her anchor.
Wherever they went, as long as they were together, that place would simply be the next setting in their love story.
the beautiful agony of life is in the unexpected turn, the unforeseen swerve
