Julie

“God never promised us an easy life. He never promised that we wouldn’t suffer, that we wouldn’t feel despair and loneliness and confusion and desperation. What he did promise was that in our suffering we would never be alone. And though we may sometimes make ourselves blind and deaf to his presence he is beside us and around us and within us always. We are never separated from his love. And”
― 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

“Sometimes I feel scared to let people become a permanent part of my life because then, if or when they decide to leave, I’ll be forced to miss them. And I’ve been forced to miss a lot of people. I’m really tired of missing people. So it’s easier to just…not.”
― Elyse Myers, That's a Great Question, I'd Love to Tell You

“My heart seemed to drop down and back, the thing it always does right before I start to spin and spin. I refuse to call it a panic attack. Panic attacks are for nervous fliers, hipster neurotics. Their demons, whatever they are, can’t even compare to the terror of knowing it’s about to happen, the something bad I’ve been waiting for ever”
― Jessica Knoll, Luckiest Girl Alive