Maxine Espejo

“All my life, I’d assumed it was only brave people who did brave things. I’d never once considered how many of them were absolutely terrified.”
― Brianna Madia, Nowhere for Very Long: The Unexpected Road to an Unconventional Life

“Your new life is going to cost you your old one.
It’s going to cost you your comfort zone and your sense
of direction.
It’s going to cost you relationships and friends.
It’s going to cost you being liked and understood.
It doesn’t matter.
The people who are meant for you are going to meet you
on the other side. You’re going to build a new comfort
zone around the things that actually move you forward.
Instead of being liked, you’re going to be loved. Instead of
being understood, you’re going to be seen.
All you’re going to lose is what was built for a person you
no longer are.”
― Brianna Wiest, The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery

“Listen to me, Martha – if you’re not scared, then you’re not living.”
― Evie Woods, The Lost Bookshop

“But it became comforting to think of fear as a vessel of freedom. I had scared myself right into the kind of life I wanted.”
― Brianna Madia, Nowhere for Very Long: The Unexpected Road to an Unconventional Life