“In your place, if there is pain, nurse it, and if there is a flame, don't snuff it out, don't be brutal with it.”— André Aciman, amazon.com
“A woman, or man who speaks her truth and isn’t afraid of being ‘soft’ is courageous. Vulnerability takes back bone.”— Janne Robinson, merakiii.com
“We must be willing to encounter darkness and despair when they come up and face them, over and over again if need be, without running away or numbing ourselves in the thousands of ways we conjure up to avoid the unavoidable.”— Jon Kabat-Zinn, amazon.com