Girl Runner Quotes

“Under every layer of pain, another layer of recovery lies in wait, the sweet, forever surprising truth of endurance.”
― Carrie Snyder, Girl Runner

“People we love do disappoint us (...). We don't have to love them less for it. Maybe we have to love them more.”
― Carrie Snyder, Girl Runner

“We are the sum of our actions, and of our inactions, yes, that is easy enough to understand. What comes harder is finding ourselves the sum of our emotions, which flicker, altered by experience, by the things we cannot bear to tell ourselves, by the trouble we accrue, the flattening and tamping down as we learn how not to be hurt. As we learn protection and the easiest means of protection.”
― Carrie Snyder, Girl Runner

“Surprising choice proves hardest to come by. Most choices, even the disastrous ones, are predictable.”
― Carrie Snyder, Girl Runner

“How is life a shaped? By parentage, siblings, calss and religion, by schooling, vocational choices, by friends, partnerships, children, by place and time, by illness and accident, and sometimes, but most rarely, by surprising choice.”
― Carrie Snyder, Girl Runner

“We are the sume of our actions, and of our inactions, yes, that is easy enough to understand. What comes harder is finding ourselves the sum of our emotions, which flicker, altered by experience, by the things we cannot bear to tell ourselves, by the trouble we accrue, the flattering and ramping down as we learn how not to be hurt. As we learn protection and the easiest means of protection.”
― Carrie Snyder, Girl Runner

“Ancient fame carries a whiff of notoriety. People forget,or no longer care. One grows into another version of loneliness.”
― Carrie Snyder, Girl Runner