Good Luck with That Quotes

“Life was kind and full of chances. Sometimes we didn’t take them. Sometimes we hid our truth and acted out of fear. Sometimes we turned away and closed the door.”
― Kristan Higgins, Good Luck with That

“It’s not easy, you know, to be in love with your husband and watch him slowly grow disappointed with who you actually are.”
― Kristan Higgins, Good Luck with That

“Yes, I was clad in yoga pants that had never seen a yoga studio and a T-shirt covered in rabbit and dog hair. But I’d been reading. There was no reason to dress up for reading. Books didn’t care. Books were just happy to be read.”
― Kristan Higgins, Good Luck with That

“When you’re surrounded by peers at their peak of beauty, it’s impossible to forget your own imperfections. My weight was like a Dementor, always close, always stealing happiness, something I always tried and failed to escape.”
― Kristan Higgins, Good Luck with That

“True peace was rare when you were fat. When you were fat, you wore armor to protect and deflect. You were either sharp and bitter, inspiring fear in potential bullies, or you were extra cheerful to show nothing mattered at all, not the snubs or the insults or the degradation. When you were fat, you worked so hard to be invisible. You lived in fear of being noticed, singled out, of having someone point out what you already knew.”
― Kristan Higgins, Good Luck with That

“...they were just normal, and they were enjoying that elusive state of simply BEING...”
― Kristan Higgins, Good Luck with That

“After all, how many days like this do you get in life? How often can you really be free, alive...weightless? That's the problem with perfect moments. They end.”
― Kristan Higgins, Good Luck with That

“Size matters, as much as you don't want it to.”
― Kristan Higgins, Good Luck with That

“That was the shitty thing about divorce. You lost that whole other family, that whole world.”
― Kristan Higgins, Good Luck with That

“Maybe we never get over what happened when we were little.”
― Kristan Higgins, Good Luck with That

“Sometimes you never know how much those little things matter.”
― Kristan Higgins, Good Luck with That

“In a way, Emerson's list taught me something I hadn't anticipated. You didn't get everything in life. I'd always thought if you worked hard enough and tried to be your best self, the universe would listen. But it didn't always. As my grandfather used to say, God was not a grocer; you didn't hand him a list and have him go through it, checking off everything you'd asked for. You could be fulfilled just the same...and you were also allowed to be sad once in a while.”
― Kristan Higgins, Good Luck with That

“That's what the list was about. The chance to get it right. It wasn't about tucking in shirts and piggyback rides. It was about not letting your weight define you, and not letting it decide when you could be the person you wanted to be.”
― Kristan Higgins, Good Luck with That

“Leo the piano teacher taught out of a garden apartment and lived upstairs with his girlfriend, Jenny.”
― Kristan Higgins, Good Luck with That

“You could be fulfilled just the same . . . and you were also allowed to be sad once in a while.”
― Kristan Higgins, Good Luck with That

“Going to the doctor when you’re fat is a string of humiliations. The second you walk in, you only have one problem. You could have a spear through your heart, and the doctor would say, Eighteen hundred calories a day, lots of green leafy vegetables, and forty-five minutes of cardio every day, and that spear will be no problem!”
― Kristan Higgins, Good Luck with That

“understood.

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I smile at everyone because I’m afraid they hate me on sight, so I try to be extra sweet. Though I don’t do it on purpose, I even talk in a softer, higher-pitched voice than I use when I’m talking to myself, or with Marley or Georgia.”
― Kristan Higgins, Good Luck with That

“All the misery of being a fat teenager in America, trying so hard to be invisible, quiet, not to draw attention to myself.”
― Kristan Higgins, Good Luck with That

“I want to be with someone. I want to be part of a couple. I want kids. He’s a good person, Georgia. All I have to do is—what’s that saying?—make the scales fall from his eyes, and I think he could love me.”
― Kristan Higgins, Good Luck with That