Mack

“The thing about rising is we have to continue upward; the thing about going beyond is we have to keep going.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Brave Enough

“You're looking for the explanation, the loophole, the bright twist in the dark tale that reserves your story's course. But it won't reverse -- for me or for you or for anyone who has ever been wronged, which is everyone. Allow your acceptance of the universality of suffering to be a transformative experience. You do that by simply looking at what pains you squarely in the face and then moving on. You don't have to move fast or far. You can go just an inch. You can mark your progress breath by breath.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Brave Enough

“If it is impossible for you to go on as you were before, so you must go on as you never have.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Brave Enough

“If she could live through that, from now on, she could live through anything—even love. But maybe instead of happily ever after--or maybe in addition to it--this time it would be everything. Everything ever after. And when they asked her if she was happy, this time she’d answer, “Among other things.”
The way Suzanne saw it was that most things were ultimately manageable if you went at them the right way, even if they started out all wrong and hopeless and wrapped so tight around you that you just can’t breathe. Even the things you never thought you could get over or get through, those hurts you knew would never heal, those visions that troubled your sleep….All that eventually quieted and ceased to pull at you, if you wanted it to badly enough, if you were willing to outlast your difficulties.”
― Carrie Fisher, The Best Awful