Madeline Louden

“When you lose power over your own life, you don’t have much reason to stay energized and motivated.15 So, you protect yourself emotionally by checking out and giving up.”
― Devon Price, Laziness Does Not Exist

“KAREN: Sometimes I wonder, if I was Graham, maybe I would have wanted a baby, too. If I knew someone else would raise it, someone else would let go of their own dreams, someone else would sacrifice and keep everything together while I went and did what I wanted and came back on weekends…maybe then I might want a baby, too.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“business. I released a secret, not caring who in my family might abandon me, because I finally understood that keeping the secret was an act of abandoning myself.”
― Christie Tate, Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life

“The people in the relationship are more important than the relationship. Don’t treat people as things.”
― Amy Gahran, Stepping Off the Relationship Escalator: Uncommon Love and Life