Megan

“Agape" is loving a person for exactly who they are - not who we hope they'll become with enough fixing. It's this idea that every person has their layers, so you can never confine a person to only what you know about them from the first glance. It's stacked on the premise that to love anyone is to hope in them always.”
― Hannah Brencher, If You Find This Letter: My Journey to Find Purpose Through Hundreds of Letters to Strangers

“Where
do all the
memories go,
the ones we
hide away
with
lock &
key yet
continue
to shape
us all the
s  a  m  e?
 
- did it really happen if i can’t remember it?”
― Amanda Lovelace, The Princess Saves Herself in This One

“I think we worship these stories of leaving it all behind and going somewhere new, but I’m beginning to see that every one of those stories has the same truth holding up this romantic idea of leaving: The stuff you’re not facing will follow you. It will get in the car too. It will pack a bag too. Leaving isn’t the key; changing is. I’m learning that life isn’t about the destinations we can boast about getting to; it’s about all the walking in between that feels pointless when you try to take a picture of it because no one will understand it like you do. It’s the in between stuff that fleshes out a story—gives it guts and transformation.
It’s not about the scenery changing or the person you say good night to. The traveler must be the one to change. That’s what makes the story good.”
― Hannah Brencher, Come Matter Here: Your Invitation to Be Here in a Getting There World

“Grace is letting something else—something so much bigger than you—carry you home. It’s having and wanting nowhere else to be but in a moment that wants you and takes you just as you are.”
― Hannah Brencher, If You Find This Letter: My Journey to Find Purpose Through Hundreds of Letters to Strangers