Heather Abel > Quotes

“One had to at all times remain free of the delusion that anybody was who you believed them to be.”
― Heather Abel, The Optimistic Decade

“They were also, at times, rude and contemptuous and know-it-alls, copping a rhetorical style that was beginning to characterize communication all the wide web over.”
― Heather Abel, Gut Instincts: Dispatches from the Wide Open Space Between Sickness and Health

“He smiled at them and began one of his talks about how you can allow yourself to change when you’re in the wilderness, how it’s one of the only times in your life you might be entirely open to change.”
― Heather Abel, Optimistic Decade

“I’ve thought that maybe everybody has one decade, call it an optimistic decade, when the world feels malleable and the self strong. And then it’s over. It doesn’t come back.”
― Heather Abel, Optimistic Decade

“I try to remember that I used to believe, long before I knew about celiac, that our wildest joys came from mystery not despite it.”
― Heather Abel, Gut Instincts: Dispatches from the Wide Open Space Between Sickness and Health

“Over the years, Caleb had learned that if you invited them the right way, people generally acted how you wanted them to act. If you made sure to invite them into something grand and purposeful. If you told a compelling and urgent story into which they could enter. If you gave them a role, a small but crucial part.”
― Heather Abel, Optimistic Decade

“She was a spiderweb and a spider, all at once.”
― Heather Abel, Optimistic Decade

“Their ideas are all wrong. For them, everything is anti, against. And this anger at everything, it means they’re basically paralyzed.”
― Heather Abel, Optimistic Decade