Michelle

“Janet encouraged me to let in the problems of the world enough not to paralyze me but to galvanize me to do more. As I made my way through the ensuing years, I would think about these two words so often--paralyze and galvanize--their strong and opposing forces, and the space between them.”
― Tallu Schuyler Quinn, What We Wish Were True: Reflections on Nurturing Life and Facing Death

“You might see people posting their wins and want to do the same... But just remember that all you'll see in the media is a product, not a process. This whole book is meant to reveal all the steps along the way - the bumps and hurdles, the misses and mistakes that make us. No one is made of wins.”
― Stephen Curry, Shot Ready

“The memories I stored, I could not let festered. Could not let trauma infiltrate and spread, to spoil and render them useless. They were moments to be tended. The culture we shared was active, effervescent in my gut and in my genes, and I had to seize it, foster it so it did not die in me. So that I could pass it on someday. The lessons she imparted, the proof of her life lived on in me, in every move and deed. I was what she left behind. If I could not be with my mother, I would be her.”
― Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart

“Yes, there was a place for convenience. But not everything needed to sit tidily on a shelf. Some things were messy, difficult, or impossible to contain. Some things defied easy categorization. What happened to me when I was a girl was all of those things. It didn't fit neatly in a box. But I had to accept it - no matter how inconvenient it was.”
― Amy Griffin, The Tell: Oprah's Book Club: A Memoir