Elizabeth

“Your problem is how you are going to spend this one and precious life you have been issued. Whether you’re going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are.”
― Matt Haig, The Comfort Book

“Breathing consciously seems to be a way to hack into your self-esteem. A way to say Give yourself a break. A way to just accept you as you and life as life. And all you need is a pair of lungs.”
― Matt Haig, The Comfort Book

“Sometimes forgetting is a mercy, and recalling is a pain too deep to bear.”
― Meagan Church, The Mad Wife

“Women, Eleanor thought, carry guilt and responsibility like a second skin, so much so it weighs them down and stops them from ever achieving quite everything they should.”
― Araminta Hall, Imperfect Women