Rivi

“Never underestimate the big importance of small things”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“But for anyone out there whose life is being ruined by an active addict right now, please allow me to say the one thing that I don’t think gets said strongly enough or often enough: it’s okay for you to leave them. Don’t get me wrong: Addicts are precious and suffering children of God, and they do not deserve your contempt.

But if you can ever save yourself from one—run.

It’s okay for you to leave them.

That’s what Rayya used to tell me, anyway, back when she was sober—or at least semisober. It has nothing to do with love, she said. Nothing to do with loyalty. Of course you love them, and you will always love them! But having the courage to cut off contact with an active addict is often the only way to survive their rampages—and it just might be the wake-up call that the addict needs, too.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, All the Way to the River

“if you are looking for answers you can’t find, you need to change the question.”
― Laura Dave, The Night We Lost Him

“We cannot access tomorrow’s wisdom today, much less yesterday. And when wisdom finally does arrive, it often enters our minds through the pain of a lived experience. If you haven’t lived the experience yet, then you don’t get the wisdom.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, All the Way to the River