Esme Cahill Fails Spectacularly Quotes

“You can work hard, and you should. Because even the most spectacular failure serves its purpose, setting you up for the success to come. And as long as you learn, no lesson is never a waste. But the stuff that really matters tends to come with a built-in timeline that’s usually a secret and almost always different than yours.”
― Marie Bostwick, Esme Cahill Fails Spectacularly

“But here’s the deal . . . Everything worthwhile takes longer than you think, trust me on this.”
― Marie Bostwick, Esme Cahill Fails Spectacularly

“Life has a way of steering you toward the path you’re meant to take, whether you meant to take it or not.”
― Marie Bostwick, Esme Cahill Fails Spectacularly

“Everything worthwhile takes longer than you think, trust me on this. You can work hard, and you should. Because even the most spectacular failure serves its purpose, setting you up for the success to come. And as long as you learn, no lesson is never a waste.”
― Marie Bostwick, Esme Cahill Fails Spectacularly

“For good or for ill, what we believe about ourselves is what shapes our life, our future, our legacy; that is our story.”
― Marie Bostwick, Esme Cahill Fails Spectacularly

“When you fill every moment with frenetic activity, there’s no space left for the things that truly matter.”
― Marie Bostwick, Esme Cahill Fails Spectacularly

“With all this planning, aren’t you worried about missing out on the unexpected? The serendipitous? I don’t know about you,” she said, looking toward Adele, “but I’ve always thought that detours are the best part of any journey.”
― Marie Bostwick, Esme Cahill Fails Spectacularly

“From the first day he’d come into my life, that’s how I’d always thought of him, as a mighty, deep-rooted tree—a shade against the sun, a break against the wind, a shelter in the storm. So it was disorienting to imagine him diminished in any way, impossible to accept that he could ever be anything less than he’d always been. I mean, this wasn’t just some old man we were talking about—this was George!”
― Marie Bostwick, Esme Cahill Fails Spectacularly

“the anger of frustration and betrayal, of being discounted and blocked at every turn, forced from the path I’d mapped out for myself years before, exiled to the outskirts of everything I long for, cast aside, disregarded, sidelined.”
― Marie Bostwick, Esme Cahill Fails Spectacularly

“I’ve decided that menial is in the eye of the beholder. Though”
― Marie Bostwick, Esme Cahill Fails Spectacularly

“What’s so smart about writing a book that doesn’t have a plot?”
― Marie Bostwick, Esme Cahill Fails Spectacularly