Hannah Brown > Quotes

“Talking about trauma matters. Talking about trauma heals.”
― Hannah Brown, God Bless This Mess: Learning to Live and Love Through Life's Best (and Worst) Moments

“Body image haunts so many of us. I am learning to love the feeling I get when I know I’m healthy, and being grateful for that, and being comfortable in the body I have. I’m proud of my athleticism.”
― Hannah Brown, God Bless This Mess: Learning to Live and Love Through Life's Best (and Worst) Moments

“was struck by an unpleasantly familiar feeling. That gut-punching grief of watching a car drive away with someone I love inside of it, knowing they weren’t coming back.”
― Hannah Brown, Mistakes We Never Made

“Something that I’ve been wanting to do for a long time.” He’s smiling at me, but there’s a thread of nerves running through his voice as he asks, “Emma Mae Townsend, I am not a perfect man, but when I’m with you, I feel like I could be. I know we’ve made mistakes along the way, but I am just glad that all the mistakes I’ve made in my life have led me back to you. Would you do me the honor of marrying me?”
― Hannah Brown, Mistakes We Never Made

“Like all I ever had to do was ask, and I could have everything I ever wanted.”
― Hannah Brown, Mistakes We Never Made

“I don’t want to hold on so tightly to the things that hurt me anymore. I”
― Hannah Brown, Mistakes We Never Made

“THE GREAT THING ABOUT TEQUILA IS THAT IT’S NOT JUST A DRINK. IT’S AN activity. Lick. Shoot. Suck. Salt. Tequila. Lime.”
― Hannah Brown, Mistakes We Never Made

“The more time I’ve spent thinking and reading about it, the more I’ve come to discover that lots of people dream of a purpose in life that doesn’t fit into a certain box. And I think we need to start talking about that. A passion or a purpose can be so much more abstract and different than we think. Feeling a call to some purpose doesn’t necessarily mean that you’re going to be a preacher. It doesn’t mean you’re going to be a teacher or a doctor or a lawyer or a banker.”
― Hannah Brown, God Bless This Mess: Learning to Live and Love Through Life's Best (and Worst) Moments

“I am enough. I am loved. No more, no less. That’s all that matters.”
― Hannah Brown, God Bless This Mess: Learning to Live and Love Through Life's Best (and Worst) Moments

“It was indecent that men were allowed to walk around with their forearms just out in the open.”
― Hannah Brown, Mistakes We Never Made

“Our story is a sequence of mistakes almost made—times when I thought Finn and I might be something more than just friends—but thankfully I’ve managed to avoid making the one mistake I know would be fatal: falling for him.”
― Hannah Brown, Mistakes We Never Made

“Because of the image I projected, I was expected to do good. When I messed up, I never heard, “It’s okay, we all make mistakes.” It was, “Hannah! You know better!” At least, that’s how I heard it—no matter what they said.”
― Hannah Brown, God Bless This Mess: Learning to Live and Love Through Life's Best (and Worst) Moments

“He’s like… he’s like the ocean. The feelings are just as powerful, but they’re steadier—like the tide, rolling in and out. Sometimes it feels like he’s the only one who can weather all my storms.”
― Hannah Brown, Mistakes We Never Made

“It’s not a two-way street,” Finn says. “Parents have to love their kids. Kids get to choose if they love their parents.”
― Hannah Brown, Mistakes We Never Made

“My need to fix everything isn’t just about being responsible or looking out for my friends. It’s about trying to protect my own heart. To hold the shattered pieces of myself together by whatever means necessary. Because when there’s one massive thing in your life that you have zero control over—like when a parent abandons you—then you look for stability where you can get”
― Hannah Brown, Mistakes We Never Made

“I just want someone to take care of me the way I take care of everyone else.”
― Hannah Brown, Mistakes We Never Made

“Well, I’ll never forget the debate where you were so offended by the opposing team’s tactics that you physically moved the podium so you wouldn’t have to look them in the face.”
― Hannah Brown, Mistakes We Never Made

“Where were the women who made big dreams come true, but who were also moms and nurturers? The fact that I didn’t see them in my own world made me wonder if thinking big wasn’t something I should do.”
― Hannah Brown, God Bless This Mess: Learning to Live and Love Through Life's Best (and Worst) Moments

“How much easier would all the difficult periods and circumstances of my life have been if I had walked into them with the simplicity of knowing that Jesus had me?”
― Hannah Brown, God Bless This Mess: Learning to Live and Love Through Life's Best (and Worst) Moments