I Need You to Read This

Walking might not be as good as psychotherapy, but it is the only way to feel like she is still moving forward in her life, even if she isn’t.

Just like Dorothy and her ruby slippers, you will realize that everything you need has been inside you all along.

There is a kind of bravery that you must possess to come to this city with nothing and no one, a certain amount of having nothing to lose.

It’s been a long time since she’s had this kind of feeling about a person, the kind of comfortable chemistry where just watching them do something mundane is attractive.

fear. If you are not mindful, you can spend a whole lifetime weighing your options.

We can never get back time—it’s one of life’s biggest tragedies but also one of its greatest motivators. If things were not finite, there would be no need to ever evaluate what is most important to us.

You have to allow yourself to be vulnerable if you want to receive anything good this world has to offer.

These people have so much money they have to invent ways to spend it.

the implication that Howard Demetri had sway beyond the reach of a normal person.

she saved any letters from people who could possibly be a danger to themselves or others.

I realize that I’d rather have been standing in a hallway of closed doors all this time with her than all alone with all the options in the world. It is far too late for Hazel and me. But I don’t want to live like this anymore. Nothing was ever good enough for me to commit to, and now that I’ve committed to nothing, I have nothing.

Park, letting herself enjoy the wild and impossibly rare sensation of having just gotten what you want in life.

All my life I have felt like I was at sea alone in a boat that was bound to sink unless I kept my hands on the oars. But the problem with paddling like crazy is that sometimes, just focusing on surviving makes it hard to know what direction you’re heading or if you are going anywhere at all.

You are not miserable because of your job but rather because you have made it the whole focus of your life.

There are certain people who appreciate your vulnerability and certain people who will try to use it against you. But they can’t if you don’t let them.

There are certain times you need to go someplace new to put your life back on course. I’m not saying it will automatically make you a different person. But it can be hard to change under the microscope of people we know, hard to stretch ourselves through the claustrophobia of the familiar.

Nothing was ever good enough for me to commit to, and now that I've committed to nothing, I have nothing.

Alex crosses Fifty-Ninth Street and cuts up through Central Park, letting herself enjoy the wild and impossibly rare sensation of having just gotten what you want in life.

Francis’s words felt like those of a true friend, one who innately understood you, who would do whatever was in her power to make sure you succeeded.