Alexandra

“Rituals and routine became a safety blanket of sorts, something I could wrap around myself when things felt uncertain, which they so often did.”
― Hazel Hayes, Out of Love

“Whatever your brain tells you - that you're useless, that you're broken, that you're unfixable - just hear it, acknowledge it and try to let it pass. You are not broken just because your brain says so.”
― Hazel Hayes, Out of Love

“We’ve been granted the mental capacities to make almost infinitely ambitious plans, yet practically no time at all to put them into action.”
― Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

“I know that staying with him doesn't mean I'm weak. I know it wasn't my fault. I know all this. But knowing something and believing something are two very different things. And part of me still blames myself for staying.”
― Hazel Hayes, Out of Love