292 Quotes by Glennon Doyle Melton

Depression takes all my vibrant colors and bashes them together until I am gray, gray, gray.

Each day, we’re making sandcastles I know will be washed away. I long for something solid, lasting, strong between us.

I think about the tragedies the women in my life have faced. How every time a child gets sick or a man leaves or a parent dies or a community crumbles, the women are the ones who carry on, who do what must be done for their people in the midst of their own pain.

I decide to take a risk on this family. Not because I won’t get hurt, but because they are the right people to get hurt by.

If you can’t beat fear, just do it scared.

Loving people and animals makes us stronger in the right ways and weaker in the right ways. Even if animals and people leave, even if they die, they leave us better. So we keep loving, even though we might lose, because loving teaches us and changes us.

I was filled with electric thunder, simmering water, fiery red and gold, but all I had to do was smile and nod and the world would take me for easy breezy blue. Sometimes I wondered if I wasn’t the only one using her skin to contain herself. Maybe we are all fire wrapped in skin, trying to look cool.

I explain that now, when someone asks me why I cry so often, I say, For the same reason I laugh so often—because I’m paying attention.

We find out early that telling the whole truth makes people uncomfortable and is certainly not ladylike or likely to make us popular, so we learn to lie sweetly so that we can be loved. And when we figure out this system, we are split in two: the public self, who says the right things in order to belong, and the secret self, who thinks other things.