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“He’d learned that holding too tightly was as harmful as never reaching out at all.”

A reminder of one of my favourite quotes: "If you love someone, set them free. If they come back, they're yours; if they don't, they never were".

“There was nothing lonelier than a man who betrayed his wife on a regular basis.”

This is a book I would highly recommend for women who were never taught their worth and remain in loveless marriages. Choose yourself.

“Love can rise above tragedy and give us a way home.”

“Love was a heavy winter coat that could keep you warm all year.”

“Dreams, they were such precious commodities.”

“I think our lives are mapped out long before we know enough to ask the right questions.” 😮‍💨

“Nothing was worse than being left behind by the one you loved.”

Nobody writes grief and heartbreak like Kristin Hannah 😮‍💨

“She knew that love was important, maybe the most important thing. But she’d learned in the past weeks that it wasn’t a magical elixir. Even Annie wasn’t naive enough to believe that every problem could be solved by coating it in love. Some pain couldn’t be assuaged. Some traumas couldn’t be overcome.”

“Depression. One word to describe a mountain of pain. One word to steal sunlight from a person’s soul and leave them stranded in a cold, grey landscape alone and searching for something they couldn’t even name.”

“People left. And if you loved too deeply, too fiercely, their swift and sudden absence could chill you to the soul.”

Just as lobsters never stop growing; neither do our brains. It’s called neuroplasticity.

Lobsters never stop growing
Learners should never stop learning