Jen Marin

“Disappointment with our children is always just disappointment with ourselves, and nothing has a longer braking distance than that.”
― Fredrik Backman, The Winners

“Our children never warn us that they're thinking of growing up. One day they're just too big to want to hold your hand. It's just as well we never know when the last time is going to be or we'd never let go.”
― Fredrik Backman, The Winners

“speak” (p.1). We create as we speak because words make worlds within us. If you doubt this, try saying the word “waterfall.” What do you see, hear, smell, taste, experience? How do you feel? Now try on the word “supermarket,” or worse, “traffic.” What do you see, hear, and feel now? A single word is powerful enough to create an entire sensory experience in someone who hears, reads, or thinks it. If you were in a laboratory with electrodes attached to your head, a neuroscientist could track your brain’s response. If a single word can do that much, think of the possibilities of a line, a sentence, a paragraph, a page—or a sequence of pages!”
― Leslie Davenport, Transformative Imagery: Cultivating the Imagination for Healing, Change, and Growth

“the worst thing about paranoia is that the only way to prove you’re not paranoid is to be proved right.”
― Fredrik Backman, Us Against You