The Least Amount of Awful Quotes

“It's safer for the heart to dance with the devil it knows.”
― Jennifer Millikin, The Least Amount Of Awful

“Intimacy isn't only about being vulnerable enough to let someone else know you. It's about letting someone else discover you. We can't always see ourselves clearly. Partners don't see us with perfect clarity, either, but they take our flaws and spend time understanding them. The investment in loving us through our faults, that is intimacy.”
― Jennifer Millikin, The Least Amount Of Awful

“I'm choosing not to care, and I have to say, not caring is a great place to be.”
― Jennifer Millikin, The Least Amount Of Awful

“Doing something painful for the right reasons doesn't make it any less painful.”
― Jennifer Millikin, The Least Amount Of Awful

“But sometimes you can't help who you fall in love with. And sometimes, you have to carry their baggage, not because you should, but because you choose to.”
― Jennifer Millikin, The Least Amount Of Awful

“It's crazy to think the people who are supposed to keep the most tender versions of us safe, are sometimes the ones who hurt us.”
― Jennifer Millikin, The Least Amount Of Awful

“All I know is that the hurt gets heavier the longer we carry it.”
― Jennifer Millikin, The Least Amount Of Awful

“A steel moment. That's what this is. Moments that are filled with calm preparartion, a bracing for the chaos.”
― Jennifer Millikin, The Least Amount Of Awful

“What if I stop designing a life that doesn't hurt, and choose instead to live?”
― Jennifer Millikin, The Least Amount Of Awful

“But that's the odd thing about emotions. A person can feel them, but that doesn't mean they can verbalize them. Sometimes, they can't even identify them.”
― Jennifer Millikin, The Least Amount Of Awful

“The very best thing you can do for yourself is design a life where you feel the least amount of awful.”
― Jennifer Millikin, The Least Amount Of Awful