Bobi Jensen

“I am tired of people calling those of us who get stuck in these cycles "codependent" or "addicted" to the narcissistic relationship. It's not that. If you have any empathy, have normal cognitive functioning, and were shaped by societal and cultural norms and realities, it is not surprising that you would get stuck. The narcissistic relationship is like a riptide that pulls you back in even as you try to swim away. The intensity, attentiveness, and highs and lows are why you swim out to where the riptide is. The abusive behavior makes you want to swim away from the riptide, but the guilt and fear of leaving, the practical issues raised by leaving (financial, safety, cultural, family), as well as the natural drive toward attachment, connection, and love are what keep you stuck in the riptide's pull.”
― Ramani Durvasula, It's Not You: Identifying and Healing from Narcissistic People

“One of my yellow detention slips from the spring semester read: Calling Jesus an asshole.”
― Brianna Madia, Nowhere for Very Long: Nowhere for Very Long EPB: The Unexpected Road to an Unconventional Life – A New York Times Bestselling Adventure Memoir

“As horribly cliché as it sounds, it felt for the first time that my soul had perhaps lived once before. And if it had, it most certainly lived here.”
― Brianna Madia, Nowhere for Very Long: Nowhere for Very Long EPB: The Unexpected Road to an Unconventional Life – A New York Times Bestselling Adventure Memoir

“We couldn’t run away to the desert because that’s just not what adults do. Adults pack their crazy dreams away, perhaps forever, or perhaps to push upon the next generation, who, for some unknown reason, might have a better shot at them than they did. Then they put on their ties and pay their mortgages because, at some point, someone told them their dreams were no longer feasible. And they believed them.”
― Brianna Madia, Nowhere for Very Long: Nowhere for Very Long EPB: The Unexpected Road to an Unconventional Life – A New York Times Bestselling Adventure Memoir