Magical Midlife Madness Quotes

“Raise your voice until you are heard. Look however you want, be whoever you want, and demand people pay attention to you. Stop taking what you’re given, and demand the space in life you want.”
― K.F. Breene, Magical Midlife Madness

“What do you think it does to future men when you teach boys that being weak is being a pussy? Pussy meaning female, obviously. Or yelling at men who are doing poorly that they’re being girls? Or ladies? Had enough, ladies?” I squinted one eye at him. It was all my brain could muster for a glare. “Men are teaching boys that they are equivalent to ladies, to girls, when they’re at their worst. At their absolute weakest. And you wonder why we’re from different planets? You wonder why men so often disrespect women?”
― K.F. Breene, Magical Midlife Madness

“I might not be fast or be able to run for a long time just yet, but I was damned good at falling, bruising, and then getting back up.”
― K.F. Breene, Magical Midlife Madness

“I’m crazy?” I asked. “You started it! You started it, and I plan on finishing it. That’s just responsible fighting. That’s what a mother does, finishes things. Then tidies up. Trash can, unmarked grave, whatever. Garbage goes where I put it, and that’s that.”
― K.F. Breene, Magical Midlife Madness

“Chuck Norris destroyed the periodic table,” I replied. “Huh?” “He only recognizes the element of surprise.”
― K.F. Breene, Magical Midlife Madness

“Midlife ladies did not crash. Not unless there was a lot of wine involved and a rogue set of stairs jumped in front of her.”
― K.F. Breene, Magical Midlife Madness

“People don’t mysteriously go missing around him, do they?” “It’s never mysterious,” Niamh answered. “They leave so they don’t have to listen to him.”
― K.F. Breene, Magical Midlife Madness

“I’ve been to that circus and I’ve seen all the clowns.”
― K.F. Breene, Magical Midlife Madness

“Soon I’d get my diet under control—no more binging cookies right before bed—and then I’d be a rock star. I could do this! Okay, not as many cookies before bed. A lady had to live.”
― K.F. Breene, Magical Midlife Madness

“His mood had shifted. Darkened, like it had fallen down a well, and was now worried about a basket of lotion and a hose.”
― K.F. Breene, Magical Midlife Madness

“Teenagers were the absolute worst. It was like an alien had come to earth one day, picked up my loving boy, and replaced him with a stinky, hairy mutant. Someone should’ve warned me.”
― K.F. Breene, Magical Midlife Madness

“This felt right in a way nothing had in a long, long time. Like it was meant to be. Like my strife had not been in vain, at any point, and the next chapter of my life was, indeed, about to start. I couldn’t wait. Except first I had to pee.”
― K.F. Breene, Magical Midlife Madness

“Young people should have an off switch until they can prove they have something to give back to society,”
― K.F. Breene, Magical Midlife Madness

“Bad guys kept winning because good guys didn’t understand they were part of the problem.”
― K.F. Breene, Magical Midlife Madness

“But the truth was, I didn’t feel accepted. I didn’t feel acknowledged for my service in raising the next generation, for my active role in the community, or even for being human sometimes. I felt utterly ignored. I felt invisible or, worse, frowned upon. Most of the time, when I looked in the mirror, I saw only my flaws. I saw all the things that advertisements and social media said was wrong with me. I wanted to focus on what was right about this version of myself, like the way I’d learned to take life a little slower and enjoy each moment. Like my appreciation for people’s differences, and for beauty found in unlikely places. For my friendships, new and old. I wanted it to be okay that I wasn’t worried about beauty anymore, or worried about looking young. I just wanted to look like me, however me looked in any given year.”
― K.F. Breene, Magical Midlife Madness

“I think all kids secretly hope there’s some magic curling through reality,” I mused. “That if we look hard enough, one day we’ll find it. I haven’t ever grown out of that. And I did find it, in books mostly, as I said. In daydreams.”
― K.F. Breene, Magical Midlife Madness

“I jumped off, landed on my feet like I was born to this—then tumbled and skidded on my face. I might not be fast or be able to run for a long time just yet, but I was damned good at falling, bruising, and then getting back up.”
― K.F. Breene, Magical Midlife Madness

“Young people should have an off switch until they can prove they have something to give back to society,” I said.”
― K.F. Breene, Magical Midlife Madness

“Turned out the tasting guy was a pompous blow hard who thought the sun that grew the grapes shined out of his ass. He described the wine to the point that I didn’t even want to try it anymore. He went over definitions I neither knew nor wanted to know. And if Austin hadn’t cut him off by pointing at the new people patiently waiting, the guy would’ve kept talking my life away until I threw up my hands and walked out.”
― K.F. Breene, Magical Midlife Madness

“I’m your huckleberry”
― K.F. Breene, Magical Midlife Madness

“She hoped not. She’d bet Edgar a blood source that Jessie would stay in tonight, as befit someone her age. Janes had all these silly preconceived notions about what they could and could not do at various ages. Dress codes, hair styles, what body parts could and could not be shown. If Niamh lost, she’d have to lure a Dick back, and the older she got, it was becoming increasingly harder to find anyone that desperate for a nightcap. The young, stupid ones all thought they’d break her hip.”
― K.F. Breene, Magical Midlife Madness

“They were young and looked ridiculous, but at least they were respectful.”
― K.F. Breene, Magical Midlife Madness

“I released a breath I hadn’t realized I’d been holding. “I’ve cracked, that’s all there is to it. Living with my parents—even for just a couple days—has finally driven me insane.”
― K.F. Breene, Magical Midlife Madness

“Often we don’t see things about ourselves that everyone else finds apparent.”
― K.F. Breene, Magical Midlife Madness

“Be proud of who you are, and don’t let the past negatively color your future.”
― K.F. Breene, Magical Midlife Madness

“our only limitations are those we set for ourselves.”
― K.F. Breene, Magical Midlife Madness

“I wanted to focus on what was right about this version of myself, like the way I’d learned to take life a little slower and enjoy each moment. Like my appreciation for people’s differences, and for beauty found in unlikely places. For my friendships, new and old. I wanted it to be okay that I wasn’t worried about beauty anymore, or worried about looking young. I just wanted to look like me, however me looked in any given year.”
― K.F. Breene, Magical Midlife Madness

“As a woman excited to start this new chapter, I wanted to feel…normal. Accepted. But the truth was, I didn’t feel accepted. I didn’t feel acknowledged for my service in raising the next generation, for my active role in the community, or even for being human sometimes. I felt utterly ignored. I felt invisible or, worse, frowned upon. Most of the time, when I looked in the mirror, I saw only my flaws. I saw all the things that advertisements and social media said was wrong with me.”
― K.F. Breene, Magical Midlife Madness

“I frowned at him, my response to the unexpected sensation. He frowned back, probably wondering what my problem was. Social-awkwardness, hard at work.”
― K.F. Breene, Magical Midlife Madness

“The courage of a mother could not be measured. We toiled in the background, day in and day out, without thanks, so our children could become their best selves. We sacrificed ourselves for our loved ones, and we did it silently. Gladly. Full of love.”
― K.F. Breene, Magical Midlife Madness