Kristy McGinnis Books & Quotes

“Perhaps the core of strength a person needed to thrive in this world was made of chalk. Perhaps it could be washed away, broken apart, crumbled under a cruel maternal hand. Or perhaps it was granite. Perhaps it needed only to be carefully mined and polished.”

Strength Core Values Strength And Courage Stronger Quotes

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“The worst is what happens when you’re blithely going about the dogged routine of your life, those moments when you’ve forgotten to have a guard up at all.”

Worry Unexpected Foreboding

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“It’s a riptide. You don’t fight the current.”

Acceptance Ocean Surrender Riptide

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“Maybe it was selfish, but I didn’t want to let her rest in peace. She could do that when it was my turn.”

Grief Grief And Loss Rip Widowhood Widow Rachel Grieving Quotes Rest In Peace Quotes

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“So bitter is the taste in my mouth, when I remember making that choice.”

Regret Bitterness Bitterness Quotes Regrets In Life

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“It’s a riptide. You don’t fight the current Rachel, that’s how even strong swimmers exhaust themselves and die. Swim parallel to the coast instead. The ocean’s gonna get bored of you eventually, she’ll let you go if you’re patient enough and don’t fight her.”

Ocean Surrender Patience And Timing Delta Acquiescence Riptide Riptides

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“The monster under my bed is pitchpoling. See, when you’re in heavy seas you always face the bow forward. Steer into the waves. Seems to break the laws of nature but most times it works. You're gonna live to see another day. If your vessel gets turned sideways though, you get stuck in the trough and in heavy seas you can capsize. I don’t even worry about that so much. I can control that- I just steer the boat into the oncoming waves. Problem solved. Until it’s not.”

Fears Nautical Ocean Quotes Ship Quotes Boating

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“You don’t know anything other than the reality you are born into though. Perhaps our version of normal looked quite different than many other families, but it was absolutely normal to us.”

Rachel Military Family Military Families Normal Families

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“There’s something about an interstate highway that nearly wipes out the memories of before. Each ticking mile marker brings you further away from the person you were at the start.”

Road Trip Rachel Road Trips Kenna Mile Markers Road Trip Quotes

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“With each mile marker that we pass, a weight that’s been bearing on my shoulders for almost 21 years, grows lighter. Soon I’ll be floating.”

Changes Road Trip Road Trips Mile Markers Road Trip Quotes

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“At what point was it morally reprehensible to bring a life into a chaotic, toxic world?”

Guilt Pessimism Rachel Maternal Guilt Parental Guilt

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“Sanitized, cleaned, my house was a mausoleum and the ghost it housed was me.”

House Ghost Lonliness Haunted Solitary Life Agoraphobia Memories With Children

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“The words he couldn’t quite say out loud, would spill out in amber, copper, and red from the mouth of his brush. His paintings said I love you. I love you and I won’t leave you.”

Art Artist Love Quotes Painting Artists Paintbrush

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“I’m surrounded by dead poets and dead novelists writing about their dead lovers and dead mothers, all day, every day, at work. Dead people have things to say too.”

Dead Poets Obituaries

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“An endless party sounds fun in theory, but the body and mind can only take so much. Some people show up here hoping it’s the answer to all of their problems and figure out too late that they actually brought the problems with them.”

Party Key West

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“There’s an oblique otherness out there and through the power of her thoughts- I am momentarily seen and felt.”

Not Alone Kenna Supported

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“An hour of road trip time stretches on much longer than real life time.”

Time Passing Road Trip Road Trip Quotes

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“When you were living in the moment though, it wasn’t possible to truly understand how finite it all was. Don’t we all secretly hope that we are the exception to the rules of time? We might even be immortal. Then, one day, something happens, you see your aging reflection in the mirror, really see it, and you know you’ve been fooling yourself. You can’t go back and relive it again and remembering can be a beautiful thing, but it can also break your heart.”

Aging Immortality Mortality Aging Women Mortality Quotes Mortality Awareness Finite Life

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“What was it about mothers and daughters that made it so damned complicated?”

Motherhood Mothers And Daughters Maternal Neglect Narcissist Mothers

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