Heather kmiec’s Reviews > The Night We Met > Status Update

“If I had a nut allergy, I’d taste your food to make sure it’s safe and if it wasn’t and I died, I’d die happy because I died protecting you. Do you understand?”

“I ask myself if I’m doing something because it’s what I’m used to, or if I’m doing it because it’s objectively the best thing to do.”

Did you know in an emergency people tend to escape out the door they came in, even if it’s not the safest route, because that’s the door they know? They’ll run right into the danger they’re trying to get out of, just because it’s familiar. I think about that like once a day. Most people go their whole life like that, escaping out the door they know. It actually changed the way I live my life.”

Life buries us. We get heavier and heavier as time goes on and we labor under the layers we’ve collected. Sometimes the layers make us who we are and sometimes they make us someone else entirely.