Jacklyn

“When people know you too well, they eventually see your damage, your weirdness, carelessness, and mean streak. They see how ordinary you are after all, that whatever it was that distinguished you in the beginning is the least of who you actually are. This will turn out to be the greatest gift we can offer another person: letting them see, every so often, beneath all the trappings and pretense to the truth of us.”
― Anne Lamott, Dusk, Night, Dawn: On Revival and Courage

“The best thing about rock bottom is the rock part. You discover the solid bit of you. The bit that can't be broken down further. The thing that you might sentimentally call a soul. At our lowest we find the solid ground of our foundation. And we can build ourselves anew.”
― Matt Haig, The Comfort Book

“Their life is neither good nor bad. It just goes on.”
― Shahrnush Parsipur, Women Without Men: A Novel of Modern Iran

“But the distance I felt came not from country or people; it came from within me. I was as distant from myself as a hawk from the moon.”
― James Welch, Winter in the Blood