Upside Quotes

“Don't be very frightened, Marilla. I was walking the ridge-pole and I fell off. I suspect I have sprained my ankle. But, Marilla, I might have broken my neck. Let us look on the bright side of things.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“This is the upside to crashing: madly letting go and giving yourself to someone else. This is the freedom beyond the fear.”
― Rebekah Crane, The Upside of Falling Down

“While I do not advocate burning the flag, I do encourage displaying it upside down as a symbol of a nation in distress.”
― Steven Magee

“There's a moment bungee jumping, when you're free - falling. The air actually feels thick. Almost like it's keeping you afloat more than pushing you down. And you forget to be scared. You forget to be anything. You're just... still and falling at the same time. At the end, when the bungee catches, you're actually disappointed because it felt so good. It's over too soon. It's the upside of falling down. It's why you jump in the first place... for that moment.”
― Rebekah Crane, The Upside of Falling Down

“The downside to grief is that it makes you desperate for everything to stay the way it’s supposed to be.

The upside to grief is how good you get at pretending that things still are the way they’re supposed to be.”
― Alex Nonymous, All's Fair...

“There's always an upside, Bunny.”
― Rebekah Crane, The Upside of Falling Down

“I spent so little time with my children in the course of those two and a half years. The upside is that my kids have become very self-reliant and independent in their school work and travel arrangements.”
― Janice Koh