Josh Sweeney

“As I increasingly saw Mom's behavior in myself, I tried to understand her.”
― J.D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

“I tried to go to a counselor, but it was just too weird. Talking to some stranger about my feelings made me want to vomit. I did go to the library...”
― J.D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

“She is sensitive, not stupid.”
― Glennon Doyle, Untamed

“I was unprepared in a truly hilarious fashion, but I have learned this about endeavor— that we are never prepared. We are always overwhelmed at some point. And I have learned that the human spirit is fierce, that it enables us to do things that we set out to do, the things that cannot be prepared for, the things we would never have set out to do if we had known what it would’ve taken at the start.”
― Tyson Motsenbocker, Where the Waves Turn Back: A Forty-Day Pilgrimage Along the California Coast