Kristine

“Healing is an ongoing process, and it’s never done. From a motivational or an attitudinal standpoint, you come at yourself a lot differently if you’re trying to heal than if you’re wanting to fix. To the extent that you are applying more grace and more empathy and more love to yourself as you are navigating behavioral patterns in your life, you are healing more than fixing. Healing is acceptance—radical acceptance. It’s being patient with yourself and not berating yourself up over unmet expectations, either yours or other people’s, and not basing your worth on external validation.”
― Zachary Levi, Radical Love: Learning to Accept Yourself and Others

“Bookshops made her anxious. Each volume was like an eager animal at the pound, striving for attention, hoping for a home. “Take me, take me,” they called out, until the chorus grew so loud she had to turn and flee.”
― Ruth Reichl, The Paris Novel

“It sounds so much better in French.” “Most things do.”
― Ruth Reichl, The Paris Novel

“Your problem”—he pulled an onion tart from the oven—“is that you always look for reasons to be unhappy.”
― Ruth Reichl, The Paris Novel