Jillian Horton > Quotes

“We don't get time back. But maybe going through all this teaches us how to spend it properly.
Or what it's actually worth.
Or both.”
― Jillian Horton, We Are All Perfectly Fine: A Memoir of Love, Medicine and Healing

“Too busy with their own lives to tend to the chronic emergency of ours.”
― Jillian Horton

“It's Dr. Gachet, sitting with it all in that moment, whatever is being given to him. Containment. Holding all the things he can diagnose but not change. It hurts to do that, if you're doing it well.”
― Jillian Horton, We Are All Perfectly Fine: A Memoir of Love, Medicine and Healing

“The universe doesn't exist to make you happy.
... life never actually failed to do what it said it would do, because it never said it would do anything.
Because it's just a construct that it made a deal with us.
It lets the hurt just be hurt.
Manslaughter instead of murder one.”
― Jillian Horton, We Are All Perfectly Fine: A Memoir of Love, Medicine and Healing

“But maybe I can shepherd it back to the breath when it's only gone as far as the backyard. Maybe I don't need to let it get as far as the freeway, or the airport, and then I won't have to spend days walking back, retracing my steps to the place where I find my breath. Maybe this is a way to conserve energy, an alternative to holding court with everyone I know.”
― Jillian Horton, We Are All Perfectly Fine: A Memoir of Love, Medicine and Healing