Zoë Collins > Zoë's Quotes

“To be an adult who still believes in wonder and magic, despite all of the trauma, loss, and hardship, is to live with a kind of quiet courage and sense of hope”
― Zoë Collins, Amor Fati: An Incredible True Story of Survival, Hope & Healing

“The hardest escape is from the lies we are told about ourselves, and the detrimental damages they do”
― Zoë Collins, Amor Fati: An Incredible True Story of Survival, Hope & Healing

“Shame must change sides.”
― Gisèle Pelicot, A Hymn to Life

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.”
― Pablo Picasso

“I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.”
― Flannery O'Connor, The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor

“Trauma does not always arrive as chaos, sometimes it arrives as normalisation”
― Zoë Collins, Amor Fati: An Incredible True Story of Survival, Hope & Healing

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“When you doodle, your mind becomes deeply focused and relaxed. Harvard cardiologist, Herbert Benson identified this as the relaxation response. Doodling can be a meditative experience.”
― Cindy Bayles, Doodle Healing: A fun, easy, and effective strategy to design a life of purpose, self-compassion, and joy. No matter the circumstances.

“I hope because I was open about what happened to me, my children will insist on intimacy, on knowing their partner deeply, on being known deeply. I hope they will talk to their partners about money, about what will happen if the partnership ends. I hope that as they build trust in their relationships, they never lose sight of their own authority, their own voice, their own intuition. I hope they will move toward people who are in pain, rather than away. I hope they will understand that every person has experiences that make them who they are. I hope they will fall in love with abandon as I did with their father. I hope they will know, from watching me, that if everything falls apart, they can get up and piece together something new.”
― Belle Burden, Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage