Beauty in the Broken Places Quotes

“May we always remember to begin the day being grateful for life, however difficult that life may appear. To show up for our loved ones. To listen, to allow them to weep when they need to weep. To cook them dinners when they need us.”
― Allison Pataki, Beauty in the Broken Places: A Memoir of Love, Faith, and Resilience

“Social media is bad enough for the mood and the self-esteem on a good day, when all we see is an endless sequence of people’s highlight reels.”
― Allison Pataki, Beauty in the Broken Places: A Memoir of Love, Faith, and Resilience

“Tragedy can come at any time and in any shape. Life gets scary and it gets hard. We scream and we cry and we fall to the floor,”
― Allison Pataki, Beauty in the Broken Places: A Memoir of Love, Faith, and Resilience

“Isn’t marriage a dynamic thing in which two people are constantly growing and learning and evolving—and isn’t the key to honor and cherish and nurture your love for your partner even as you grow and learn and evolve?”
― Allison Pataki, Beauty in the Broken Places: A Memoir of Love, Faith, and Resilience

“clenched that we just don’t want to do it any longer. And that is when we have our greatest chances and our greatest choices. We choose, today, to strive toward a full recovery. A full life must inevitably come with its challenges. But it also means a life full of love and loved ones.”
― Allison Pataki, Beauty in the Broken Places: A Memoir of Love, Faith, and Resilience