Stephanie

“Some of the most beautiful things worth having in your life come wrapped in a crown of thorns.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“I tell you this to break your heart, by which I mean only that it break open and never close again to the rest of the world.”
― Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

“If I'm free, it's because I'm always running.”
― Jimi Hendrix

“Do you know what the worst thing about being a parent is? That you're always judged by your worst moments. You can do a million things right, but if you do one single thing wrong you're forever that parent who was checking his phone in the park when your child was hit in the head by a swing. We don't take our eyes off them for days at a time, but then you read just one text message and it's as if all your best moments never happened. No one goes to see a psychologist to talk about all the times they weren't hit in the head by a swing as a child. Parents are defined by their mistakes.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People