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We had formed lifelong attachments to physical things, to items we’d outgrown, to feelings and memories that were standing in the way of new growth. But we were reluctant to release these things because we were scared. Because we thought
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“You musn’t be afraid of the dark.’
‘I’m not,’ said Shadow. ‘I’m afraid of the people in the dark.”
― American Gods
‘I’m not,’ said Shadow. ‘I’m afraid of the people in the dark.”
― American Gods
“The worst thing about panic attacks is that you feel like you are dying. You struggle for oxygen, your chest cavity heaving with the weight of ten thousand worlds. Adrenaline floods your bloodstream and spikes your heart rate and you gasp, convinced your heart is failing. Your skin turns to fire and then ice, goosebumps erupting like tiny little mountains, forcing you to shake so hard you fall to the ground. Your heart stutters and thuds unevenly in your ears. Of course you’re not actually dying. You’re living. But isn’t living the hard part?”
― Starstruck: A Memoir of Astrophysics and Finding Light in the Dark
― Starstruck: A Memoir of Astrophysics and Finding Light in the Dark
“Scientists define perfectionism as the will to achieve high standards combined with excessive self-criticism. Perfectionists expect, well, perfection. Anything less won’t do. In their minds, a mistake equals failure. Perfectionists also tend to doubt their actions.”
― On Edge: A Journey Through Anxiety
― On Edge: A Journey Through Anxiety
“Our hidden demons are simply the residue of perfectly ordinary and almost universal insecurity, self-doubt, and fear of failure. Maybe you still resent your sister for flirting with your boyfriends in high school. Maybe you feel undervalued by your new boss. This is not even the stuff of a good, tear-soaked Oprah episode. But it can be enough to hook you into behaving in ways that don’t serve you.”
― Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change, and Thrive in Work and Life
― Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change, and Thrive in Work and Life
“If you have one parent who loves you, even if they can't buy you clothes, they're so poor and they make all kinds of mistakes and maybe sometimes they even give you awful advice, but never for one moment do you doubt their love for you--if you have this, you have incredibly good fortune.
If you have two parents who love you? You have won life's Lotto.
If you do not have parents, or if the parents you have are so broken and so, frankly, terrible that they are no improvement over nothing, this is fine.
It's not ideal because it's harder without adults who love you more than they love themselves. But harder is just harder, that's all.”
― This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.
If you have two parents who love you? You have won life's Lotto.
If you do not have parents, or if the parents you have are so broken and so, frankly, terrible that they are no improvement over nothing, this is fine.
It's not ideal because it's harder without adults who love you more than they love themselves. But harder is just harder, that's all.”
― This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.
Erin’s 2025 Year in Books
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