Hannah Quotes
Because you deserve dignity, beyond anything else in this world. You deserve a God, and a faith, and a belief that finds you dignified at the core.
They were the kind of words you read back and every lettered limb surprises you because you never knew you really felt those things the whole time.
A message for those of you who contemplate permanent solutions to temporary problems. You never know what could be coming in the future. There is so much music you've yet to hear.
Life has a vendetta against writers. It does everything in it's power to get in the way of our craft. Maybe it thinks we embellish too much?
But achieving a sense of inner peace is real. It's out there. You just have to be willing to walk past the darkness, and even past the light, to find it.
He who cares for the sparrows and numbers the hairs of our head, cannot possibly fail us.
With this man I will never want. With this man I will never be sad again.
I remember wanting to flee her, and being unable to flee her, so in need of her and half hating her for it, and I still am nauseous from it.
Your life has intrinsic value, not simply because of who you are as an individual, but because of who He is as your God.
Forgiveness is the economy of the heart.…forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.
I have forgiven Sonora. I have forgiven New York, forsaken the recursion of history. But I do not yet know how to forgive myself.
The house is eerily quiet. All this time I thought silence would be a welcome reprieve, but it's less comforting than I imagined. The house feels so much bigger and colder than it ever has.
My life is now divided into two periods: With June and After June. I can't wrap my mind around the idea of it.
I don't think those who die are any better than those who stay alive. They just look better. They can't mess anything up anymore.
And so I learned about grief, and about the absence and emptiness that for a long time make grief unforgettable.
The fish will not blame you. You have to do this. I will not look at you and think you're a bad brother. Nobody will. You have to leave because this time you have to save yourself.
Creativity vs. inspiration: inspiration makes a copy, creativity makes something completely new.
One day you look in the mirror and you see your parents' sadness in your eyes.
I lit a cigarette. 'Go ahead, take a smoke, ' my father said. 'It won't kill you. Only sadness will.
Are men like babies? Is trying to distract them a better tactic than asking them to behave reasonably?
it’s better to be bold than meek.If you jump off a cliff at least you’llfly before you fall
I had everything that I needed, but every morning when I woke up, it just seemed easier to stay in bed and daydream rather than to live my dream.
Christ came into the world to save sinners, not good people, and your unworthiness is your greatest claim for His salvation.
You'll never know the kind of person you could be until you take that first step, all alone, into the great unknown. Very few take the step.
I want to board a train, and leave my books behind. I want to be so caught up in writing about the journey, that I forget that fiction & fact are not the same. The destination does not signify.
It's so stupid because all I wanted was space and now that I have it, there's this part of me that's achingly lonely I could die.
Maybe we’re all a how are you away from not feeling so alone in all of this today.
I believe now that we’re the enemy to the things we really want for our lives. We get really good at telling ourselves ugly lies on repeat every day. You’re unworthy. You’re ugly. You’re inadequate.
That's not me talking, it's your inner voice. I'd attempt the accent, only I don't speak low self-esteem. It's a language I've never needed to learn.
When you are rich, your past disappears. You get everything you want when you want it . . . Everyone wants to know you. Everyone wants to be your friend.
My sense of the past is vivid and slow. I hear every sign and see every shadow.
I think women are closer to God than we are. They walk right out there like they know what they're doing.
Be confident because the odds are in your favor.' He clears his throat, like talking this much hurts him. 'Not because you're a special snowflake.
Death is easy. To live is the most painful thing I could imagine and I'm weak and no longer willing to fight.
Fear and failure, they go hand in hand. They’re like dance partners with great rhythm.
Poverty scrapes these homes down until they all look the same, and they all have in common the absence of things that ought to be there. I might as well have been at one place all my life.
God is a lot of things to a lot of people but I don't think He is a cheap party host with limited grace to give out.
God is a lot of things to a lot of people but I don’t think he is a cheap party host with limited grace to give out.