Laya

“Your only job—and it’s a big one—is to try to speak and live your own honest truth. That truth might shift. You might need more time to even understand what that truth is. That’s it. That’s the job. Trying to manage or control everyone else? Not the job. Impossible, besides.”
― Deb Caletti, A Heart in a Body in the World

“She survived something big, and when you survive something big, you are always, always aware that next time you might not.”
― Deb Caletti, A Heart in a Body in the World

“Oh, every person is a book with chapters. Some are glorious and some are dark and ugly. Every person survives something.”
― Deb Caletti, A Heart in a Body in the World

“I’m lonely but I’m not alone. My body works, my brain works, I’m alive. It’s a good life. I have to make a conscious effort to remember that. To choose to be happy every day. If I didn’t, I think my own pain would’ve killed me a long time ago.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shadow Me