Mara Williams > Quotes

“Polite is lying with better PR.”
― Mara Williams, The Epicenter of Forever

“history is no more than a loose collection of stories we were told”
― Mara Williams, The Truth Is in the Detours

“You gotta fill your life with things you love more than you loved what broke you.”
― Mara Williams, The Epicenter of Forever

“You gotta fill your life with things you love more than”
― Mara Williams, The Epicenter of Forever

“Enjoy this. Don’t think about whether it’s practical. It isn’t. Don’t think about what happens when you leave. It’ll probably suck. But you’ve spent your whole life living in the future or the past. Just let yourself be in the now.”
― Mara Williams, The Epicenter of Forever

“scars don’t really mean anything. They just show what happened to you”
― Mara Williams, The Epicenter of Forever

“The frailty of their old wounds is more apparent without the armor of their youth.”
― Mara Williams, The Epicenter of Forever

“my emotional muscle was torn in two a long time ago and never healed”
― Mara Williams, The Epicenter of Forever

“Maybe joy and suffering are the same subjects brushed in different hues—not either or”
― Mara Williams, The Epicenter of Forever

“People with degenerative illnesses are losing control of their bodies. Resistance often comes in the form of stubbornness about what they can control.”
― Mara Williams, The Epicenter of Forever

“Hope doesn’t have a chance until there’s a tear in the cloak of despair.”
― Mara Williams, The Epicenter of Forever