The Survivor's Guide to Family Happiness Quotes

“People tell you who they really are, if you listen and pay attention.”
― Maddie Dawson, The Survivor's Guide to Family Happiness

“She said that belonging was just a state of mind. That you had to create it yourself.”
― Maddie Dawson, The Survivor's Guide to Family Happiness

“People have such sad lives. And you have to make your own life. Every day you get to start over anyway, work on your own story.”
― Maddie Dawson, The Survivor's Guide to Family Happiness

“Sometimes when you’re moving from the old to the new, the universe likes to remind you who’s in charge by spinning your tires on ice and then throwing a toilet at your head.”
― Maddie Dawson, The Survivor's Guide to Family Happiness

“belonging was just a state of mind. That you had to create it yourself. That you could go your whole life feeling bereft because of this loss or that loss.”
― Maddie Dawson, The Survivor's Guide to Family Happiness

“maybe safe is just a matter of perspective.”
― Maddie Dawson, The Survivor's Guide to Family Happiness

“We are all so bereft. You have to choose happiness. Happiness is a matter of making up your mind.”
― Maddie Dawson, The Survivor's Guide to Family Happiness

“People don’t belong to other people, Nina. We all belong to ourselves. And no one ever feels included. We just muddle through.”
― Maddie Dawson, The Survivor's Guide to Family Happiness

“Be careful when people love you—that’s what I’ve learned.”
― Maddie Dawson, The Survivor's Guide to Family Happiness

“He said, “It’s your choice. It’s always been your story.” “Well,” she said, “it’s not a good story.” “But it’s the one you’ve got,” he said.”
― Maddie Dawson, The Survivor's Guide to Family Happiness

“Funny, how you can have a million happy moments staring you in the face, and still you haven’t budged from the original problem that had plagued you since you were five.”
― Maddie Dawson, The Survivor's Guide to Family Happiness

“But—and this is all on me—it’s just that sometimes, lying next to him after he’d gone to sleep, I would think that maybe my whole point in life was going to turn out to be a caregiver for people I didn’t really, really, really belong to.”
― Maddie Dawson, The Survivor's Guide to Family Happiness