10 Quotes by Danielle Younge-Ullman

I'm the parent. It's my job to be here for you, not the other way around.

Nothing guarantees happiness. I’m not certain happiness should be the goal. Satisfaction, maybe. A sense of purpose. Contribution. Authenticity. Happiness? It’s a lightweight goal. And meanwhile, I suspect that turning away from yourself will guarantee the opposite of happiness.

My demon is you. My best and worst is about you: how I need you and fear for you, how I fear for myself if I lose you, how I have let myself be defined by you.

Even if you can’t change the external situation, you can change how you’re experiencing it.

I want to live. I want to sing, and tell stories and be connected with something larger than myself. I want to give everything I have, even if it hurts, even if it leaves me beaten down and hollowed out. I want it.

The distance grew between us, thickening like an all-day fog, until we were both so well versed in our new roles as people who didn’t matter to each other that it was impossible to break through.

We’re all liars about something.

Every action, or lack of action, takes a decision. And a decision takes energy. And every bit of energy taken in making decisions about stupid things takes energy from the important things.

Where is it supposed to go when you move on from it?