penance. Quotes

“You have to let the laughter and pure joy fill you up, so the demons have nothing left to hold and you can be free.”
― Sarah Buhl, Penance.

“When there's nothing left to hide, we break ... Everyone is alone when they face themselves. We can stand against a thousand strangers but run to the far corners of our minds to escape our own darkness.”
― Sarah Buhl, Penance

“Words are home to me. Quotes, lyrics, and even single words on their own—they hold something in them that can make your heart bleed or soar. Sometimes the absence of them can hold as much meaning.”
― Sarah Buhl, Penance.

“Love is an active choice to remain in every moment. I would like to believe that we were going to live happily ever after without being haunted by our memories. But we would be lying to ourselves if we believed that were true. Just as we were choosing to continue in our love and moments together, we were choosing to not let our past dictate our future.”
― Sarah Buhl, Penance.

“Everyone has a story, Hannah. Some people have shittier ones to play out. Maybe suffering is our payment for living on earth. The good times are gifts to us for putting up with the shitty times. It isn't anything you did, it’s just life. It isn’t karma or sin, its life and it kicks our ass one day and fills us with joy the next because that is all part of the experience.”
― Sarah Buhl, Penance.

“Freedom is found through living. Joy is found through forgiveness. Truth is found through love.”
― Sarah Buhl, Penance.

“Stories find their way in each of us.”
― Sarah Buhl, Penance

“Hope has that open-ended possibility of not happening. But yet does not, because I have every intention of making it so.”
― Sarah Buhl, Penance.

“On their own, people can be real with you—sometimes. In groups, people feed from one another as opposed to thinking for themselves. The loudest person in the group declares the course of action and others follow, thinking the decision came from the collective. When in reality, the loudest person manipulated the entire situation.”
― Sarah Buhl, Penance.

“If I could lie to myself, I could lie to him, as well.”
― Sarah Buhl, Penance.

“She told her boyfriend earlier that day she wanted him to remember her and vanilla milk shakes.”
― Sarah Buhl, Penance.