Jamie

“Life is what you make it,” she’d say, “not what I make it. Your life is a blank slate. Dream it up just the way you want it, and then go get it. It’s your own masterpiece to create.”
― Jenny Hale, Summer at Firefly Beach

“If we can share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can't survive.”
― Brené Brown, Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

“You were bored and angry. I took you on when no one else wanted you.’ Gamache was speaking so softly no one else could hear. And he was speaking with open affection. Beauvoir suddenly remembered the lesson he always hurried to forget. Gamache was the best of them, the smartest and bravest and strongest because he was willing to go into his own head alone, and open all the doors there, and enter all the dark rooms. And make friends with what he found there. And he went into the dark, hidden rooms in the minds of others. The minds of killers. And he faced down whatever monsters came at him. He went to places Beauvoir had never even dreamed existed.”
― Louise Penny, A Fatal Grace

“Sometimes pain stacked up, its weight crushing. Lifting it off to put life back together felt impossible.”
― Lisa Harris, Vendetta