"A Heart in a Body in the World" Quotes
After a traumatic event, a young woman embarks on a cross-country run to cope with her emotional pain and trauma.
young adult | 358 pages | Published in 2018
Quotes
I’ll find the courage, I’ll find the strength, I’ll find the way. I can do this thing.
Maybe some of us are just born to be sad. And others? Well, they just make the rest of us sad.
The thing about pain is that it demands to be felt. It will not be denied.
The heart is a muscle, and you make it stronger by using it, not by letting it shrink.
I am going to run. I’m going to run until I can’t see those sad eyes in my head anymore.
I’m not going to be that girl. The one who’s ruined. The one who’s fragile.
There’s a freedom in not having to be perfect.
The thing about heartbreak is that it’s a full-body event. And it’s a lifetime event.
I’m taking back my life. I’m taking back my body.
We are all pieces of what we have been, and sometimes, in order to move forward, we have to remember who we are.
