Harper Ford > Quotes

“Life is bloody long and hard and will take every iota of strength and enthusiasm you have to keep going, to push through, to give a fuck.”
― Harper Ford, Hot Not Bothered

“Truth is, things always feel worse before you do them. Once you’re in the thick of it, you just have to get on with it.”
― Harper Ford, Hot Not Bothered

“Instead of peeking at life from behind my fears, I’m in the thick of it.”
― Harper Ford, Hot Not Bothered

“Is this the police? Did they come to inform me that Jay is missing or injured or killed??? Or maybe it's the delivery from Amazon with the book I ordered, "How to Be Optimistic?”
― Harper Ford, Divorced [Not Dead]

“I am calm. I am whole. And I cannot change the things I don’t control.”
― Harper Ford, Hot Not Bothered

“Menopause is not the beginning of the end, as I once called it; in fact, it’s the end of the beginning. And it ushers in a new phase that can be gruelling and scary, but at the very same time can be liberating and truly magnificent.”
― Harper Ford, Hot Not Bothered

“There’s that idea of the unlived life, curving away into an alternate future like a railway track. What if I made the wrong decision back then? What if my life is on the wrong track? And is there any way on earth to get it back on the right one?”
― Harper Ford, Hot Not Bothered

“It might feel like a weakness, accepting help. But you know what, it’s a strength.”
― Harper Ford, Hot Not Bothered

“Life is struggle. But, oh my, there is beauty and there is magic.”
― Harper Ford, Hot Not Bothered

“Just shows, you can never predict life. You’re bumbling along ploughing the same old furrow then a landmine explodes and nothing is ever the same again.”
― Harper Ford, Hot Not Bothered

“If the water heats up slowly, you don't realize that you are being cooked”
― Harper Ford, Divorced [Not Dead]

“Fuck Mars.”
― Harper Ford, Divorced [Not Dead]

“It’s blowing my mind, how we all walk around doing our jobs and getting on, while inside and at home, it’s a bloody rollercoaster.”
― Harper Ford, Hot Not Bothered