Stephanie

“The willingness to stare failure in the face and shove your middle finger back at it. The people who don’t give a fuck about adversity or failure or embarrassing themselves or shitting the bed a few times. The people who just laugh and then do what they believe in anyway. Because they know it’s right. They know it’s more important than they are, more important than their own feelings and their own pride and their own ego.”
― Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

“Motherhood demands pieces of yourself, Hannah would say. Your body, your solitude, at worst your mental health. All that giving and giving and giving away can come at a cost, and one morning you might wake up to realize you’ve lost yourself and can no longer mother at all. Then, Hannah would tell her dear grown-up daughter, you must make a different kind of sacrifice, by letting go of being the giver and the caretaker, and learning to ask for help.”
― Hadley Leggett, All They Ask Is Everything

“The way I figure it, if you don’t try to be someone’s whole world, you can’t be disappointed when you find out you aren’t. A sad truth, but a necessary one.”
― Hannah Bird, Every Heartbeat After

“And yet she gets up each day. Makes jokes. Smiles her big, sunshine grin. You’d never know how much she’s endured just by looking at her. And I realize in that moment how lonely it must be, burying your own feelings to make sure no one else ever knows they’re there.”
― Hannah Bird, Every Heartbeat After