Everything Beautiful Is Not Ruined Quotes

“My demon is you. My best and worst is about you: how I need you and fear for you, how I fear for myself if I lose you, how I have let myself be defined by you.”
― Danielle Younge-Ullman , Everything Beautiful Is Not Ruined

“Nothing guarantees happiness. I’m not certain happiness should be the goal. Satisfaction, maybe. A sense of purpose. Contribution. Authenticity. Happiness? It’s a lightweight goal. And meanwhile, I suspect that turning away from yourself will guarantee the opposite of happiness.”
― Danielle Younge-Ullman, Everything Beautiful Is Not Ruined

“I'm the parent. It's my job to be here for you, not the other way around.”
― Danielle Younge-Ullman, Everything Beautiful Is Not Ruined

“I want to live. I want to sing, and tell stories and be connected with something larger than myself. I want to give everything I have, even if it hurts, even if it leaves me beaten down and hollowed out. I want it.”
― Danielle Younge-Ullman, Everything Beautiful Is Not Ruined

“We're all liars about something.”
― Danielle Younge-Ullman, Everything Beautiful Is Not Ruined

“The distance grew between us, thickening like an all-day fog, until we were both so well versed in our new roles as people who didn't matter to each other that it was impossible to break through.”
― Danielle Younge-Ullman, Everything Beautiful Is Not Ruined

“Even if you can't change the external situation, you can change how you're experiencing it.”
― Danielle Younge-Ullman, Everything Beautiful Is Not Ruined

“Every action, or lack of action, takes a decision. And a decision takes energy. And every bit of energy taken in making decisions about stupid things takes energy from the important things.”
― Danielle Younge-Ullman, Everything Beautiful Is Not Ruined

“Where is it supposed to go when you move on from it?”
― Danielle Younge-Ullman, Everything Beautiful Is Not Ruined

“It was the best feeling in the worst moment.”
― Danielle Younge-Ullman, Everything Beautiful Is Not Ruined

“You could just go for 'not horrible' and consider it done.”
― Danielle Younge-Ullman, Everything Beautiful Is Not Ruined

“If you deceive someone for their own good, how can any real good come from it?”
― Danielle Younge-Ullman, Everything Beautiful Is Not Ruined

“Jin rejoins us, and we march on. There are tears streaming down my face now, along with the sweat. They're from the physical pain. They're from all the pain. Sometime since we started across, every last shred of my inner fortification has burned away and i feel everything; all the memories, all of my pushed-down, blocked-out joys and sorrows and regrets lick up and down my insides, matching the searing of my muscles, the agony of a forest burned to the ground, the awfulness of the mother and baby raccoons. I weep and walk and climb and stumble, and my arms and shoulders and abs and back and legs and feet scream.”
― Danielle Younge-Ullman, Everything Beautiful Is Not Ruined