Robyn Carpenter

“Maybe we’re accumulating these new selves all the time.” Hauling them in as we make choices, good and bad, as we screw up, step up, lose our minds, find our minds, fall apart, fall in love, as we grieve, grow, retreat from the world, dive into the world, as we make things, as we break things.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“I believe we all serve someone in this life. For the first thirty-eight years of mine, I served myself. My conversion was not a highly emotional experience. It was a conscious, thought-out decision that changed my focus, my direction, my heart, my life.”
― Francine Rivers, Redeeming Love

“Everything is true at once. Life is contradiction. We take in every lesson. We find what works.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“Love does as it undoes. It goes after, with equal tenacity: joy and heartbreak.”
― Jandy Nelson