Julie Chavez > Quotes

“She taught me that worrying didn’t necessarily make the future brighter, but it did make the present darker.”
― Julie Chavez, Everyone But Myself: A Memoir

“And now I was looking for ways to keep the rest of the day simple, absent of striving and shoulds. This new mindset allowed me to make decisions based not on what was best, but what was good enough.”
― Julie Chavez, Everyone But Myself: A Memoir

“Fragile does not mean broken.”
― Julie Chavez, Everyone But Myself

“Depression is an ill-fitting garment that looks different on everyone.”
― Julie Chavez, Everyone But Myself: A Memoir

“Though it had begun with a tiny pinprick, that trauma in November had waited, poised to strike. It seized its moment at the game. Later that night, when I found myself too scared to turn off the lights, it attacked ferociously at my most fervent desire: to control what happens in my life.”
― Julie Chavez, Everyone But Myself: A Memoir