Ashley Covert > Ashley's Quotes

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
― James Baldwin

“I think if I've learned anything about friendship, it's to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don't walk away, don't be distracted, don't be too busy or tired, don't take them for granted. Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff.”
― Jon Katz

“Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se.”
― Charles Eames

“It’s about facing whatever darkness looms over you: your suffering, your sorrow, your sickness, and still putting one foot in front of the other.”
― Nora McInerny, No Happy Endings

“There is no choice we can make that will help us avoid heartache or suffering or loss, in some measure.”
― Nora McInerny, No Happy Endings

“It feels as if all unexpected life events blow in all at once, like a summer storm that drops rocks of ice on your lawn on an eighty-degree day. That’s true of the hard things: they arrive with an exclamation mark, sudden and declarative.”
― Nora McInerny, No Happy Endings

“Even if you’re surrounded by people you love, figuring out grief is a solo project.”
― Nora McInerny, No Happy Endings

“That is what I’ve felt like all of these months, like I am groping about in the darkness, waking up in a world I hadn’t expected to occupy. But there is no way through it except through it.”
― Nora McInerny, No Happy Endings

“There are few things that we all have in common, no matter where we come from or what we do for a living. We are all born, we all die. And in between, we all suffer. In big ways and small ways.”
― Nora McInerny, The Hot Young Widows Club: Lessons on Survival from the Front Lines of Grief

“Now that I knew fear, I also knew it was not permanent. As powerful as it was, its grip on me would loosen. It would pass.”
― Louise Erdrich, The Round House