Julia > Julia's Quotes

“You’re only human. And as humans, we can’t expect to shoulder all of our pain. Sometimes we have to share it with the people who love us so we don’t come crashing down from the weight of it all”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“There is this idea that you either read to escape or you read to find yourself.”
― Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive

“The weirdest thing about a mind is that you can have the most intense things going on in there but no one else can see them. The world shrugs.”
― Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive

“People place so much value on thought, but feeling is as essential. I want to read books that make me laugh and cry and fear and hope and punch the air in triumph. I want a book to hug me or grab me by the scruff of my neck. I don’t even mind if it punches me in the gut. Because we are here to feel.”
― Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive

“Adding anxiety to depression is a bit like adding cocaine to alcohol. It presses fast-forward on the whole experience.”
― Matt Haig

“How to stop time: kiss.
How to travel in time: read.
How to escape time: music. 
How to feel time: write.
How to release time: breathe.”
― Matt Haig

“Nothing lasts for ever. This pain won’t last. The pain tells you it will last. Pain lies. Ignore it. Pain is a debt paid off with time.”
― Matt Haig

“Have you ever heard the saying that if you’re with someone who doesn’t speak your language, you’ll spend a lifetime having to translate your soul? Amy never spoke your language. […] Briana’s different. She understands you, even when you don’t say anything at all.”
― Abby Jimenez, Yours Truly

“There’s a special peace in sleeping next to someone you love.”
― Abby Jimenez, Yours Truly