Laura (auntieyorgareads) > Laura's Quotes

“Sometimes a woman splits in two. Sometimes a woman is a public self who sits rigid on a bench with proper dignity and acceptance as someone she deeply loves walks away, while simultaneously her private self is shrieking and chasing and grasping and tackling and begging that love to stay.”
― Shelley Read, Go as a River

“Strength, I had learned, was like this littered forest floor, built of small triumphs and infinite blunders, sunny hours followed by sudden storms that tore it all down. We are one and all alike if for no other reason than the excruciating and beautiful way we grow piece by unpredictable piece, falling, pushing from the debris, rising again, and hoping for the best.”
― Shelley Read, Go as a River

“Keep going. Despite all the bullshit, magical things are coming to you.”
― Julia Bartz, The Writing Retreat

“Maybe the answer was even simpler than I could have imagined. Maybe the power had never really gone away. Maybe it still lived in me, in my guts, in my bones. Maybe all I had to do was see it.”
― Julia Bartz, The Writing Retreat

“The power of my resistance filled me, sparkling like a billion twinkling stars.”
― Julia Bartz, The Writing Retreat

“For so long I let other people make me feel like that wasn’t good enough,”
― Julia Bartz, The Writing Retreat

“Have you ever loved someone for so long that if you had to tell them how much you care, you’d be scared to even begin and that you may never stop talking once you start?”
― Courtney Kae, In the Event of Love