Julie

“Pray.” “For what?” I asked. “That our house will never be broken into again?” “No. What happens to things is not important. Pray that your heart will be able to endure whatever happens to you in the future—your heart must continue to believe that the events in this world are not the be-all and end-all but simply transient unimportant variables. Beyond the everyday ins and outs of our lives, there is a greater purpose—a reason. Perhaps we don’t yet see or understand the reason—maybe our human minds are incapable of understanding fully—yet it all leads us to something greater nonetheless.”
― Matthew Quick, The Good Luck of Right Now

“The people on the agoraphobia board had been right when they’d claimed that the fear of panic is what really hurts you. If you can just manage to ride it out, you will find yourself on the other side.”
― Lisa Tucker, Agoraphobics in Love

“They’re never far from us, you know.” “Who?” I asked. “The dead. No more’n a breath. You let that last one go and you’re with them again.”
― William Kent Krueger, Ordinary Grace

“never have chosen to have a panic attack on that ordinary morning, riding the elevator up to his office. He certainly wouldn’t have chosen the breakdown that followed: the nine days during which he couldn’t think of going anywhere without having the panic start all over again.”
― Lisa Tucker, Agoraphobics in Love