A Happy Catastrophe Quotes

“And how many times do I have to tell you? Whatever happens, love that. Because maybe, just maybe, everything is perfect.”
― Maddie Dawson, A Happy Catastrophe

“She had a mantra she lent me. I pinch my fingers and say it over and over again: Whatever happens, love that.”
― Maddie Dawson, A Happy Catastrophe

“You’re going to get everything you want. Just trust in the universe.”
― Maddie Dawson, A Happy Catastrophe

“Love is like a physical place, an energy, and like, it’s open to everybody and it’s all unlimited, and you even have to work to push it away, to keep from being hit by love energy. Because it’s the way you’re meant to live. You give it all, and it all comes back.”
― Maddie Dawson, A Happy Catastrophe

“you can’t live and protect your heart at the same time. You have to go full-out into love as hard as you can. Remember that for your future life. Give everything you have to love. It’s the only thing that counts.”
― Maddie Dawson, A Happy Catastrophe

“The thing I now know for sure—and that Patrick is learning, too—is that no matter how dark it gets, how many times you fall down, love steps in to save us, over and over and over again. Oh, and that spirits can live in the toaster. Or anywhere you need them to be.”
― Maddie Dawson, A Happy Catastrophe

“love runs the universe. And because of that, it’s out there for us all. You just have to be braver than you want to be. The person offering it might not have been your very first choice.”
― Maddie Dawson, A Happy Catastrophe

“It’s great to be in a couple, and most people will tell you that you have to sacrifice everything for the marriage and work hard at it, but I say you should play hard at it,”
― Maddie Dawson, A Happy Catastrophe

“Maybe everything that frightens you, Patrick, is really something helpless in you that needs you to love it.”
― Maddie Dawson, A Happy Catastrophe

“back when his job was to caution the world about the perils of being alive.”
― Maddie Dawson, A Happy Catastrophe

“somebody he loved very much, and now he doesn’t want that ever to happen again. So he’s protecting his heart. But what he hasn’t learned yet—but what he will learn—is that you can’t live and protect your heart at the same time. You have to go full-out into love as hard as you can. Remember that for your future life. Give everything you have to love. It’s the only thing that counts.”
― Maddie Dawson, A Happy Catastrophe

“hate to invoke the universe because people get sick of hearing that the universe is doing things—but really, we’ll call it the spirit of all that is good about love and life and community”
― Maddie Dawson, A Happy Catastrophe

“and him with his porcupine quills sticking out all over the place.”
― Maddie Dawson, A Happy Catastrophe

“I remember something I once believed about love and how it’s in the messiness that all the good stuff comes, and I close my eyes and beam her over some love.”
― Maddie Dawson, A Happy Catastrophe

“I’m good at the love stuff, so I make them happen. Even when they hurt.”
― Maddie Dawson, A Happy Catastrophe

“I have to go home. I need to refigure my life.”
― Maddie Dawson, A Happy Catastrophe

“I hope you’ll never do what I did and narrow your life down to fit his. Or let yourself be so dependent on his attention that you pretzel yourself around to fit his view of how life should be. There are so many ways to live life. It’s not only one way. We get ourselves thinking that we have to make something work because we’ve put so much time into it already . . . but you have free will. Remember that.”
― Maddie Dawson, A Happy Catastrophe

“can’t live and protect your heart at the same time. You have to go full-out into love as hard as you can. Remember that for your future life. Give everything you have to love. It’s the only thing that counts.”
― Maddie Dawson, A Happy Catastrophe

“Aaaaaand . . . she is going to be here for nearly a whole year. Which is unimaginable. He feels the life force seeping out of his body whenever he thinks of it. His teeth hurt. His hair follicles ache. He feels the beginnings of an ulcer forming somewhere.”
― Maddie Dawson, A Happy Catastrophe

“Whatever happens, love that. Because maybe, just maybe, everything is perfect.”
― Maddie Dawson, A Happy Catastrophe

“So he's protecting his heart. But what he hasn't learned yet is that you cant live & protect your heart at the same time. You have to go full out into love as hard as you can. Remember that for your future life. Give everything to love - its the only thing that counts.”
― Maddie Dawson, A Happy Catastrophe

“when the time comes to say good-bye, maybe folks could just throw themselves a big party instead of spending all that precious dwindling time chasing down a painful cure and having parts of themselves frozen or amputated.”
― Maddie Dawson, A Happy Catastrophe

“I left the flower shop early so I could rehearse. Luckily, this is Brooklyn, so people on the subway didn’t seem to notice that I was practicing out loud and enumerating talking points on my fingers.”
― Maddie Dawson, A Happy Catastrophe

“Oh, and that spirits can live in the toaster. Or anywhere you need them to be.”
― Maddie Dawson, A Happy Catastrophe

“A lot of people don’t know that Florida is an old Spanish word that probably means “there are lots of flowers here even in winter, so just shut up and rest.”
― Maddie Dawson, A Happy Catastrophe

“I don’t know if you’ll be able to understand this,” she says, interrupting me, “which is why I’m going to tell you now so if you ever come up against this in your own life, maybe you’ll handle it differently. I’ve realized that none of what I was feeling was about your father, not really. Sure, I felt neglected by him, and taken for granted, and ignored a lot of the time—but I now see that what was really happening was that I was the one taking the easy way out. I was being lazy with my own life. Not taking responsibility for my own happiness.”
― Maddie Dawson, A Happy Catastrophe

“Don’t overthink it, Patrick. Just take it as it comes. It’s life.”
― Maddie Dawson, A Happy Catastrophe

“Can you maybe believe just for a moment that everything is going to be okay no matter which way it ends up?”
― Maddie Dawson, A Happy Catastrophe