How I Came to Sparkle Again Quotes

“Miracles were just second chances if you really thought about it--second chances when all hope was lost.”
― Kaya McLaren, How I Came to Sparkle Again

“If you can, judge less and observe more.”
― Kaya McLaren, How I Came to Sparkle Again

“When someone you love dies, it's normal to lose your faith. I don't want you to lose yours. I want you to believe that there is a bigger force than you in this world, a loving and compassionate force. I want you to believe that your life has meaning and your existence has purpose. And when life is hard, I want you to believe that you'll be given strength to endure it, and that it will get better. I want you to have the peace in your heart you can only have when you believe there is a reason for everything, even if you cannot see it.”
― Kaya McLaren, How I Came to Sparkle Again

“Go spend time with the aspen trees. They'll tell you how it works. They'll tell you to look to your roots for energy. They'll tell you there's warmth below the surface.”
― Kaya McLaren, How I Came to Sparkle Again

“Most people think love comes from the heart or soul. The heart simply pumps blood, so love can't be created there. Where is the center for what appears to be a person's soul? The Brain. And what is created there, Jilly? That's right--dopamine. What does dopamine do? Creates feelings of love and euphoria. How do we get our brains to create more? Drugs, massage, and/or sex. Boil it down and it's all just dopamine.”
― Kaya McLaren, How I Came to Sparkle Again

“So at the end of the day, here was what Mike was able to believe in: people.It was people and their kindness the made him feel blessed. It was people who were the heroes, and people who were generous, and people who comforted one another.”
― Kaya McLaren, How I Came to Sparkle Again

“It brought him the most peace to simply believe that people were imperfect, and life was imperfect and sometimes bad things just happened.”
― Kaya McLaren, How I Came to Sparkle Again

“What they all knew was this: Life was fragile.”
― Kaya McLaren, How I Came to Sparkle Again

“She and Lisa always called that kind of snow heroic, because a person could do no wrong in it. Everyone skied like a hero in that kind of snow.”
― Kaya McLaren, How I Came to Sparkle Again

“Most people think love comes from the heart or soul. The heart simple pumps blood, so love can't be created there. Where is the center for what appears to be a persons soul? The brain. And what is created there Jilly? That's right-dopamine. What does dopamine do? creates feelings of love and euphoria. How do we get our brains to create more? Drugs, massage, and or sex. Boil it down and it's all just dopamine. The good news is that you can also get more dopamine pumping through your brain by skiing fast...”
― Kaya McLaren, How I Came to Sparkle Again

“He saw nothing but misfortune--human error and misfortune. It brought him the most peace to simply believe that people were imperfect, and life was imperfect, and sometimes bad things happened.”
― Kaya McLaren, How I Came to Sparkle Again

“What a tricky balance of safety and risk it is that brings out the best in us?”
― Kaya McLaren, How I Came to Sparkle Again

“It struck her hard how it was often the ordinary acts that were angelic. Maybe there were angels in the sky and maybe there weren't. Maybe angels helped arrange for Tom to be the one to drive along right at that moment. She didn't know. But what she did know was that there were angels on the ground. She did know that Tom stopped the car, got out, and buried the kid's dead cat. He didn't have to, but he did. It was a small act, but it was huge. And that made Tom an angel to her, one no less divine than any angels that might be in the sky.”
― Kaya McLaren, How I Came to Sparkle Again

“You're going to stay here. You're going to get strong. And then, when your mind is as empty as your glass, you'll know what to do.”
― Kaya McLaren, How I Came to Sparkle Again

“Why, he wondered, was it so hard to see humankind as capable of creating miracles? Miracles were just second chances if you really thought about it-second chances when all hope was lost.”
― Kaya McLaren, How I Came to Sparkle Again

“Women who got married got screwed.”
― Kaya McLaren, How I Came to Sparkle Again

“It made no sense to him, this idea that some people got God and some people didn't.”
― Kaya McLaren, How I Came to Sparkle Again

“What was it, she wondered, that made some people give up and others fight harder? Where was her fight? She was out.”
― Kaya McLaren, How I Came to Sparkle Again

“Sometimes you just wait for the night to be over and endure.”
― Kaya McLaren, How I Came to Sparkle Again

“But maybe her marriage wasn't a Lexus. Maybe it was a Pinto--one of those cars famous for blowing up when rear-ended. As she waited for the mechanics to fix her car, she walked out the back door to the wrecking yard and through the aisles of totaled cars and pickups, vehicles that other people had decided weren't worth fixing. She felt just like them. She felt like that Buick with the driver's-side door so crushed that the driver was undoubtedly hurt, but from the look of the other side, the passenger likely skated through unscathed. She felt like the Saturn with the shattered windshield through which no one could see what lay ahead. It looked as if it had been sandwiched in a multicar pileup. Jill knew exactly how it felt to crash into one thing and then get smashed from behind. She studied that Saturn and wondered whether it would have been salvageable if it had only been rear-ended instead of sandwiched, and she wondered if the same was true about her marriage.”
― Kaya McLaren, How I Came to Sparkle Again

“So the real question remains whether every problem is worth fixing. The answer to that is no.”
― Kaya McLaren, How I Came to Sparkle Again

“If you ever start thinking that any of them are developmentally more mature than a high school boy, just remember they named their dogs after beer.”
― Kaya McLaren, How I Came to Sparkle Again

“Here's what Mike knew about kids: They did stupid stuff. Pretty much all of them.”
― Kaya McLaren, How I Came to Sparkle Again

“Dear God, Lisa, what are your gingerbread men doing to each other? It's like a gingerbread orgy down there! You made porn cookies!”
― Kaya McLaren, How I Came to Sparkle Again