As Many Nows as I Can Get Quotes

“Maybe my nows will be difficult, and lonely, and full of hurt. Probably they will. But not all of them. Mostly, they will be mine. Each now, a chance to acknowledge what is in front of me. To do my best. An inhale. An exhale. A chance.”
― Shana Youngdahl, As Many Nows as I Can Get

“At what point did I stop being a planet in orbit, held in place by familiar forces of gravity? And after the cosmic collision that followed, after I cut myself loose, cast myself off, made myself alone, will I ever return to my old orbit? Can I? Do I want to?”
― Shana Youngdahl, As Many Nows as I Can Get

“It doesn’t matter where you go. You don’t get away from you.”
― Shana Youngdahl, As Many Nows as I Can Get

“All these nows happening at once. And if all our nows happen at once, then death—it’s just a scavenger hunt through time.”
― Shana Youngdahl, As Many Nows as I Can Get

“Are those the forces that’ll consume us? Not living up to people’s expectations?” “Or worse, our own.” “You really think that?” “I don’t think. I know.”
― Shana Youngdahl, As Many Nows as I Can Get

“I saw the stars, the moon, felt water and skin, and somewhere as if from very far away I heard David whisper something incoherent about our atoms interfering, cellular reorganization, the simple ways we are all this or that constitution of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen, the mystery and mistake of it all, how little boundary there really is between body, moon, sky, water. All of us made up of carbon forged in the bang that created the universe. All of us that elemental.”
― Shana Youngdahl, As Many Nows as I Can Get

“Now, I’m thinking about all the other people who were sad or lonely, grieving or lost, who have driven this road. How we are connected by our sadness, our joy, our subatomic particles.”
― Shana Youngdahl, As Many Nows as I Can Get