Mandy

“Sometimes when you're hurting, it helps to throw yourself at something that will take your weight.”
― Paula McLain, Circling the Sun

“That’s another thing that people don’t understand about depression: we don’t want to take a shower, we don’t know why we feel this way, and even if we did, it wouldn’t make us stop feeling this way. We have lost all interest in doing anything, especially anything that once brought us joy—because that thing will not bring us joy, and we can’t bear the meaning of that. It would be too much. It would crush us.”
― Heather B. Armstrong, The Valedictorian of Being Dead: The True Story of Dying Ten Times to Live

“Denys understood how nothing ever holds still for us, or should. The trick is learning to take things as they come and fully, too, with no resistance or fear, not trying to grip them too tightly or make them bend.”
― Paula McLain, Circling the Sun

“I have fought for independence here, and freedom, too. More and more I find they’re not at all the same thing.”
― Paula McLain, Circling the Sun