Chrissy Schmitzer > Chrissy's Quotes

“Even before the boxes appeared, the traditional barriers of privacy had long been collapsing, hers already a society of over-sharers. Maura, like so many others, had posted photo after photo online—of decadent meals, of the view from her office, of weekends at the beach with Nina—each one encouraging people to pry deeper and deeper into others’ lives, to expect a certain degree of transparency. Until, finally, even the act of looking at your string—what should have been the most intimate, the most personal of moments—became just another insight into your life that no longer belonged to you alone.”
― Nikki Erlick, The Measure

“filling their weekends with gardening and book clubs and tennis, those simple pleasures made all the more pleasurable for feeling so ordinary in an extraordinary time.”
― Nikki Erlick, The Measure

“Once people start believing that a certain group is out to get them—that immigrants are stealing their jobs, and gay couples are undermining marriage, and feminists are falsely accusing them of rape—it doesn’t take much to get us to turn on each other.”
― Nikki Erlick, The Measure

“I know that life can sometimes feel like a battle to be recognized for who you are, and not your circumstances.”
― Nikki Erlick, The Measure

“As Albert Einstein observed, “Coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous”.”
― Jen Sincero

“Medicine’s great magic trick is how it convinces us we’re here saving lives when more often what we’re doing is witnessing death. Over time, shock wears thin, empathy recedes, and a human being becomes nothing more than something I carry home in the tread of my right boot. This is my new normal, the resting heart rate of my psyche. It’s my state of mind as I wonder whether this job’s worth it.”
― Kevin Hazzard, A Thousand Naked Strangers: A Paramedic's Wild Ride to the Edge and Back

“The truth of course is that if people really were as happy as they look on the Internet, they wouldn’t spend so much damn time on the Internet, because no one who’s having a really good day spends half of it taking pictures of themselves. Anyone can nurture a myth about their life if they have enough manure, so if the grass looks greener on the other side of the fence, that’s probably because it’s full of shit. Not that that really makes much difference, because now we’ve learned that every day needs to be special. Every day.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“Is everything that happened to me before the age of seventeen really going to be the most important thing about me for the next seventy?”
― Jodi Picoult, Mad Honey

“but it doesn’t feel like bossiness to me. It feels like desperation. I want order. I want peace.”
― Jennette McCurdy, I'm Glad My Mom Died

“This house is an embarrassment. This house is shameful. I hate this house. I hate how being inside it makes me feel tense and anxious, and all week long I look forward to my three-hour escape into the land of testimonies and pine-scented tile cleaner. That’s why it’s so upsetting to me that my family can never get out the door on time, no matter how hard I try to make that happen.”
― Jennette McCurdy, I'm Glad My Mom Died

“I start fantasizing about how good it would be to not have to do the thing that cripples me with nervousness. To not have the constant nagging pressure of being chosen, and the sadness that comes with not being chosen.”
― Jennette McCurdy, I'm Glad My Mom Died

“When I lived in Los Angeles, I never savored warm nights. You don’t savor things that last forever. It is one of the reasons I moved back to Massachusetts.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, One True Loves

“My best friends taught me a new kind of quiet, the peaceful stillness of knowing one another so well you don’t need to fill the space.”
― Emily Henry, Happy Place

“Love means constantly saying you’re sorry, and then doing better.”
― Emily Henry, Happy Place

“But being with you and being with your family saved me.”
― Jenny Jackson, Pineapple Street

“Grief is big,” Mom says. “And this is big. These things turn your world inside out. They change us. But only for a while.”
― Natalie D. Richards, Five Total Strangers

“And that was the moment I realized: when the world felt dark and scary, love could whisk you off to go dancing; laughter could take some of the pain away; beauty could punch holes in your fear. I decided then that my life would be full of all three. Not”
― Emily Henry, Beach Read

“I can make magic too.”
― Sally Hepworth, The Soulmate

“The thing with mental turmoil is that so many things that make you feel better in the short term make you feel worse in the long term. You distract yourself, when what you really need is to know yourself.”
― Matt Haig, Notes on a Nervous Planet

“He’s just wrong,” Nick says now. “He’s imperfect. This is not new information. It’s okay. You still get to love him.”
― Catherine Newman, Sandwich

“We just keep showing up for each other. Even through the mystery of other people’s grief. What else is there?”
― Catherine Newman, Sandwich

“And we’ll be as young and as whole as we’re ever going to be.”
― Catherine Newman, Sandwich