Jaxx

“View your burden as a gift. It’s the theme that has been given you to work with. Accept that, and lean into it. This is the only life you’ll have.”
― Anne Tyler, Saint Maybe

“you could feel the texture of the cement underneath if you closed your eyes and concentrated.”
― Hope Jahren, Lab Girl

“While women feel cultural pressure to keep up their physical appearance, men feel that pressure to keep up their emotional appearance.”
― Lori Gottlieb, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed

“And gradually, very gradually, I would begin to see that this was not so much an ending as a beginning, that my life was not so much a line as one intricate loop, winding back, back, back through time and then spiraling rapidly forward, the past, the present, and the future, the person I was and the person I had yet to become, all tangled into one.”
― Jennifer McGaha, Flat Broke with Two Goats