Tia Cooper

“I was under the impression that I loved him, simply because I never knew what he was thinking.”
― Marlowe Granados, Happy Hour

“...I understood that feelings, no matter how powerful, aren't fatal. And they are only temporary. Suppressing the feelings only makes it harder to let them go. Expression is the opposite of depression.”
― Edith Eger, The Choice: Embrace the Possible

“If you are uncomfortable—in deep pain, angry, yearning, confused—you don’t have a problem, you have a life. Being human is not hard because you’re doing it wrong, it’s hard because you’re doing it right. You will never change the fact that being human is hard, so you must change your idea that it was ever supposed to be easy.”
― Glennon Doyle Melton, Untamed

“From grief, confidence has grown, remembering what I have endured. From anger, stemmed purpose. To tuck them away would mean to neglect the most valuable tools this experience has given me.”
― Chanel Miller, Know My Name