Poorna Bell > Quotes

“I am so sorry this happened to you. You didn't deserve it.
I am sorry life let you down.
I will try to keep you up.
Remember I am here.
Always.
I will hold you up.
I will be strong.
Even when it seems like I'm not there,
I am.
I'm just tiny.
But I can grow. And I can
Carry both of us.
Remember.”
― Poorna Bell, Chase Rainbow

“Not adults but not fully children either, play-acting with emotions we didn't fully understand, some lucky not to get hurt, others acquiring wounds that would stay with them for life.”
― Poorna Bell, Chase Rainbow

“Asking for help, kindness and human connection is one of the hardest things you can do, because not only does it mean opening yourself up, exposing your vulnerabilities, it also means putting your faith in other people. And sometimes people can be shitty, small-minded and let you down.”
― Poorna Bell, Chase Rainbow

“A number is attributed to everything. The number of kisses you had. The times you had dinner together on a Tuesday night. The times they held you when you cried, when you screamed at each other, laughed together. All of the firsts bookended by all of the lasts. Somewhere there is an inventory of your lives together and a number set against it, and the fact that the other person chose to end it can be the hardest thing to reconcile.”
― Poorna Bell, Chase Rainbow

“Grief that arises from death is fire, and in this fire you will be remade into something different, something that feels and sees much deeper than other people around you.”
― Poorna Bell, Chase Rainbow

“So if this is you, too; if somewhere along the way you lost the part of yourself that felt you could do anything, be anything; if there is a part of you that doesn’t feel strong or doesn’t know how to begin, that doesn’t feel you look the way you ‘should’ or feels ashamed in your own body, I am here to tell you whatever you have believed in the past does not have to determine your story.”
― Poorna Bell, Stronger: Changing Everything I Knew About Women’s Strength