Wellness Quotes

“Did you know,” she said, “that the first explorers who came to Kansas thought it was a big wasteland? They actually called it a desert, The Great American Desert, you know why?” “No.” “It was the lack of trees. They thought if trees couldn't live here, nothing could, so they misunderstood the whole place—which is basically what mom does. […] Those explorers,” Evelyn said, “were looking for the one thing that didn't grow, and so they didn't notice all the things that did grow. It's an important lesson: if you cling too hard to what you want to see, you miss what's really there.”
― Nathan Hill, Wellness

“His mourning was so fully woven into him that he wasn’t entirely sure who he was without it. It was an everyday weight, pulling him down to this one awful fact anytime he strayed too far from it:”
― Nathan Hill, Wellness