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Places I Stopped on the Way Home: A Memoir of Chaos and Grace QUOTES

Places I Stopped on the Way Home: A Memoir of Chaos and Grace QUOTES

1 " Existing in this physical form, in this particular moment, is nearly unbearable. "

― , Places I Stopped on the Way Home: A Memoir of Chaos and Grace

2 " The happiness that follows sadness is never the same as that which came before it. "

― , Places I Stopped on the Way Home: A Memoir of Chaos and Grace

3 " Make sure your identity isn’t based on something you might lose. You are not the size of your waist or your health or your job or someone else’s opinion of you. "

― , Places I Stopped on the Way Home: A Memoir of Chaos and Grace

4 " There is almost no way to prepare for how beautiful a place becomes just before you go. "

― , Places I Stopped on the Way Home: A Memoir of Chaos and Grace

5 " I am every story I’ve ever read and every word I’ve ever written... I am every man who’s ever hurt me, and the quiet hope that we’ve only got to get it right once. "

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6 " I believe in love. In the mess of it and the grace of it and frankly in the mundanity is it. In crawling into bed night after night next to it. Because sometimes you just need a person to be quiet with and sad next to. "

― , Places I Stopped on the Way Home: A Memoir of Chaos and Grace

7 " The year leading up to my 30th birthday was astonishing. Mostly in its ability to wound. "

― , Places I Stopped on the Way Home: A Memoir of Chaos and Grace

8 " Arranging words is much like making music. Flawed and small and still with a beat and a pattern and the capacity to empty the air from one's lungs. "

― , Places I Stopped on the Way Home: A Memoir of Chaos and Grace

9 " The movement of each man from a maybe to a no has cut a path wide and deep through my core, adding something to that wellspring of sadness. "

― , Places I Stopped on the Way Home: A Memoir of Chaos and Grace

10 " But already I've learned so much from this man who doesn't love me, this man with no intention of ever loving me, this man who doesn't actually think love exists. Who offers to call the airline for me and reminds me to wish my mother a happy Mother's Day. This man who is so not the right guy, but who cares for me as he knows how and holds me close when he can. "

― , Places I Stopped on the Way Home: A Memoir of Chaos and Grace

11 " But what I do know is I will leave New York with different dreams than those with which I first arrived—smaller dreams, simpler ones: an extra set of hands. "

― , Places I Stopped on the Way Home: A Memoir of Chaos and Grace

12 " There is exposure in living one’s life alone. "

― , Places I Stopped on the Way Home: A Memoir of Chaos and Grace

13 " Almost no one loves (NY) but everyone lies about it. "

― , Places I Stopped on the Way Home: A Memoir of Chaos and Grace

14 " Success doesn’t protect against despair. "

― , Places I Stopped on the Way Home: A Memoir of Chaos and Grace

15 " Heaven must be making a man laugh whenever you want. "

― , Places I Stopped on the Way Home: A Memoir of Chaos and Grace

16 " How odd our wants are—how strange it is that fear and desire live together, a mottled border between. "

― , Places I Stopped on the Way Home: A Memoir of Chaos and Grace

17 " Courage requires first a decision and then a leap... it is almost always in this way that good things happen. One person walks towards another. A small, seemingly unimpressive act that leads to better things. "

― , Places I Stopped on the Way Home: A Memoir of Chaos and Grace

18 " New York - the great 'what if' for so many. An idea and not a city. "

― , Places I Stopped on the Way Home: A Memoir of Chaos and Grace

19 " Make sure your identity isn’t based on something you might lose. "

― , Places I Stopped on the Way Home: A Memoir of Chaos and Grace

20 " Happiness demands its own sort of courage. "

― , Places I Stopped on the Way Home: A Memoir of Chaos and Grace