Anna

“It feels as if all unexpected life events blow in all at once, like a summer storm that drops rocks of ice on your lawn on an eighty-degree day. That’s true of the hard things: they arrive with an exclamation mark, sudden and declarative.”
― Nora McInerny, No Happy Endings

“You are wise,” he said.

“If it is so,” I said, “it is only because I have been fool enough for a hundred lifetimes.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“Yes, we have all been broken before. And yes, we could break all over again. The years will roll on. More joy. More pain. More possibility. More yes. More and.”
― Nora McInerny, No Happy Endings

“You cannot bubble wrap and protect your heart from life, and why should you? It is meant to be used, and sometimes broken. Use it up, wear it out, leave nothing left undone or unsaid to the people you love. Let it get banged up and busted if it needs to. That’s what your heart is there for.”
― Nora McInerny, No Happy Endings