Snap Out of It Quotes

“When we just guard against disappointment, all we’re doing is hurting ourselves before someone else can hurt us. That’s all this is. Let’s make a pact not to do this anymore.”
― Maddie Dawson, Snap Out of It

“You need to just live your life, realizing how lucky you are that you have so much love around you. Goddamn it, trust yourself, Billie! Make mistakes if you have to. Make all the goddamned mistakes you need to make. Everything is fixable.”
― Maddie Dawson, Snap Out of It

“It’s one of our best human powers, to love, and then pick ourselves up after a loss and love again and again.”
― Maddie Dawson, Snap Out of It

“It may sound crazy, but grief is just love that doesn’t have a place to go. So love yourself! Love your life! Love your work and your friends and what it’s like to be alive right now.”
― Maddie Dawson, Snap Out of It

“How it is that those middle-of-the-night hours might be good, actually, how they somehow lead you to examine what’s important in your life and to learn to trust yourself. How valuable, really, heartache can be when it brings you closer to a true version of what you want out of life.”
― Maddie Dawson, Snap Out of It

“I say we stop all that. Pay attention to things that make us happy. Why tie your happiness to something that’s so fleeting? Why not discover what makes you happy instead?”
― Maddie Dawson, Snap Out of It

“What I want to know is why romantic love has to be this lifelong goal that everybody has to conquer, when it’s so over the top and doomed to fail, and then, when it doesn’t work out—and it hardly ever does—then everybody feels like a discarded piece of dryer lint.”
― Maddie Dawson, Snap Out of It

“and so after indulging in a fifteen-minute personal meltdown out on the back stairs, I got busy and threw out all the stuff he left behind, his golf clubs and his cuff links and his stupid tuxedo. So there, I said. Good riddance to you, Victor Worst Husband Ever Steidley.”
― Maddie Dawson, Snap Out of It

“You know this already, I can tell,” he said. “You know how it is that you start over. A piece of music plays, or the light slants in just so. You see that you’ve lost little pieces of your heart, but then, without your permission, other little pieces start coming back.” We”
― Maddie Dawson, Snap Out of It

“And the big round moon, sailing along behind the branches of the tree, reminds me that one of my deepest beliefs is that people should only do what they love.”
― Maddie Dawson, Snap Out of It

“The Law of Relinquishment!” I say. “It’s one of the best laws. Once you give up, you find what you were looking for.”
― Maddie Dawson, Snap Out of It

“You’ve never had a beige emotion in your life,” he says. “Why start now?”
― Maddie Dawson, Snap Out of It