28 Quotes by Janelle Brown

There is no one path in life that is set before you, I’m starting to realize; no one is making your decisions for you.

Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final. Don’t let yourself lose me.

It’s easiest to judge from distance. That’s why the Internet has turned us all into armchair critics, experts at the cold dissection of gesture and syllable, sneering self-righteously from the safety of our screens. There, we can feel good about ourselves, validated that our flaws weren’t as bad as theirs, unchallenged in our superiority. Moral high ground is a pleasant place to preach, even if the view turns out to be rather limited in scope.

You don’t realize how much you’ll miss the asphyxiating intimacy of early parenthood until you can finally breathe again.

Real life is just a never-ending string of compromises that you make in order to survive.

Who you want people to be makes you blind to who they really are.

Perspective is, by nature, subjective. It’s impossible to climb inside someone else’s head, despite your best-or worst-intentions.

This is the great horror of life: that mistakes are forever, and cannot be undone. You can never truly go back, even if you want to retrace your steps and take another route. The path has already disappeared behind you.

In the end, we are all our mothers’ children, no matter how saintly or evil they might be; and the loss of their love is the earthquake that cracks your foundation forever. It’s permanent damage.