The Magic of Found Objects Quotes

“don’t think you have to set fire to what’s behind you in order to go.”
― Maddie Dawson, The Magic of Found Objects

“Just take your place in the world with as much grace and gratitude as you can muster and try to see the best in us.”
― Maddie Dawson, The Magic of Found Objects

“The marriage counselor said that sometimes we tell ourselves a little story, and we just hold on to it until it feels like it has to be true, and we can’t switch out of it.”
― Maddie Dawson, The Magic of Found Objects

“No one, no one, loves me the way I want to be loved. No one loves the whole me.”
― Maddie Dawson, The Magic of Found Objects

“Life is what you make it. See yourself as a victim, and that’s how it will always be.”
― Maddie Dawson, The Magic of Found Objects

“Everything always works out in the end. And if it didn’t work out yet, then it isn’t the end.”
― Maddie Dawson, The Magic of Found Objects

“Nothing good has ever happened at three in the morning. It’s the hour of terrible thoughts.”
― Maddie Dawson, The Magic of Found Objects

“When you miss somebody really, really bad, all you have to do is think of them, and if you think hard enough, they’ll feel it and they’ll start thinking about you, too. Like if you sing them a song, your voice will travel up into space and find their voice singing it right back to you.”
― Maddie Dawson, The Magic of Found Objects

“People were incompetent and clueless, but I was, too—and we were all just doing our best.”
― Maddie Dawson, The Magic of Found Objects

“And I believe that nothing ever really is an accident. And I believe in love at first sight and that love is a way of seeing the world, and that nobody is safe from it, because it just takes over; if there’s any little crack of light, it can work its way in. And I believe that we’re put on this earth to trust all joy.”
― Maddie Dawson, The Magic of Found Objects

“I think I know how you must feel. How difficult it is for you here. And how you’re pulled out of our world into another one. But, my darling, I would urge you to remember that we’ve all done the best we could here. Even Robert. He might be a little clumsy at it, he’s not perfect, but none of us have done it perfectly, have we? Not even you. You can leave us if you want to, but think about whether you might do it kindly. There’s a beauty and a completeness to our lives that you might not be able to see right now. I don’t think you have to set fire to what’s behind you in order to go.”
― Maddie Dawson, The Magic of Found Objects

“Whether you know it or not, she writes, your life has just taken off in an amazing direction. I know this because my life is doing the same thing. Also I don’t know if you’ve ever really thought about this, but the more fun you have, the better you are at life. At five o’clock, she writes, I doubt if those Puritans who have raised you have let you in on a little secret: The whole universe is your playground. You were meant to be happy.”
― Maddie Dawson, The Magic of Found Objects

“And you came into being right then. You were called to earth by all that love and joy. Think of that, will you? The spirit that is you was answering the spirit that was that time!”
― Maddie Dawson, The Magic of Found Objects

“You may not know who you are, but remember that nobody else knows who they are either. Those people who seem like they’ve got it all together? They don’t. You can always love everybody and everything,” she said. “Flow it to anybody you think you might hate.”
― Maddie Dawson, The Magic of Found Objects

“There are signs everywhere you look, she said. Messages coming to you. You just have to watch for them.”
― Maddie Dawson, The Magic of Found Objects

“Just always remember that love will get you through anything.”
― Maddie Dawson, The Magic of Found Objects

“All I know is that Hendrix and I crashed down to earth as surprises and complications, and we were left with magic flickering in our DNA and practicality knitted into our bones. It’s been a war inside us ever since.”
― Maddie Dawson, The Magic of Found Objects

“I sit there for a moment in the silence. How is it that some lucky people avoid all the pitfalls of love—the cheating husband who blindsides you, then the indignities of “putting yourself out there again,” waiting for someone to click on your profile, the retelling again and again of your life story to a random, bored stranger, and then the slow realization that time may be running out and that you need to figure out how to settle for a life that is so far from what you imagined? How, indeed, do they get that lucky?”
― Maddie Dawson, The Magic of Found Objects

“It’s as if we’ve finally agreed to join the Family of Man. Buying at last into the social norm.”
― Maddie Dawson, The Magic of Found Objects

“when you’re drawn to someone, they also feel the same way about you because it’s the spark in you talking to the spark in them.”
― Maddie Dawson, The Magic of Found Objects

“Just take your place in the world with as much grace and gratitude as”
― Maddie Dawson, The Magic of Found Objects

“There’s a beauty and a completeness to our lives that you might not be able to see right now. I don’t think you have to set fire to what’s behind you in order to go.”
― Maddie Dawson, The Magic of Found Objects

“But nothing is perfect. It takes character to live with the imperfect facts of your life and to change the things you can change, and to be willing to live with the things you can’t do anything about.”
― Maddie Dawson, The Magic of Found Objects

“You may not know who you are, but remember that nobody else knows who they are either.”
― Maddie Dawson, The Magic of Found Objects

“The other important thing, she said, was to always be yourself, even if that person you were was weird and quirky and didn’t know anything about getting along in life.”
― Maddie Dawson, The Magic of Found Objects

“But now it was my turn, and the first thing I thought was that this was the most shocking thing in the whole world. Women put up with this? If this kind of thing happened to boys, I knew for sure that Hendrix would just die of it.”
― Maddie Dawson, The Magic of Found Objects

“That was where I learned the startling fact that everybody has a butt.”
― Maddie Dawson, The Magic of Found Objects

“troglodyte.”
― Maddie Dawson, The Magic of Found Objects

“Tansey”
― Maddie Dawson, The Magic of Found Objects

“You’re creating your reality, and the words you tell yourself, the story you believe about yourself, is the way things are going to turn out for you. You have to fill your heart with love for yourself, Phronsie. That is the first and most important thing you have to do. Everything you want will follow from that.”
― Maddie Dawson, The Magic of Found Objects