The Overdue Life of Amy Byler
Kelly Harms
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Sometimes a book about other people’s problems is way better than your own.”
“It is a generous gift to do something you don’t necessarily want to do, at great expense of time and money, because you know it will make someone else very happy.”
“My house makes it so I never, ever have any extra money. If my house starts to notice I’ve been squirreling away a hundred dollars here or there to try to get my kids to a national park for a week, the house breaks something. I think it has abandonment issues.”
“Carpe somnum!” calls Daniel. “Seize the naps!”
“but like in all long-term partnerships, what first drove me wild came to drive me nuts.”
“Sometimes a book about other people’s problems is way better than your own. I guess that’s what you’ve been onto with this reading thing all along?”
“I get this now. I get now that you can love what you have, love your kids and your life and your friends, and still want more. I get that it’s ok to go out and get more—more love, more friendship, more fulfillment—and still be a wonderful mom.”
“Dad says people walk away from their families when they are trying to escape themselves,” she tells me. “He says we have to have compassion, because they may lose their loved ones, but they’ll never outrun themselves.”
“the painful realization that your children need other people in their lives besides you, that soon you’ll be relegated to the sidelines of their adult lives and have no idea who you are anymore.”
“You cannot argue with me, because this is a journal, not a text.”
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