31 Quotes by Maddie Dawson

I think she’s kind of enjoying being furious with her ex for now, if you want to know the truth. It’s hard to make room for love when anger still feels so good.

You are enough, just the way you are – do you hear me?

The subversive truth about love is that it really is the big deal everyone makes it out to be, and it’s not some form of security or an insurance policy against loneliness. It’s everything, love is. It runs the whole universe.

You need to forget what society has told you about life and expectations, and don’t let anybody make you pretend. You are enough, just the way you are – do you hear me? You have many gifts. Many, many gifts.

I want to stop thinking of pain as a problem I have to solve.

Then he has about fifty things that require sniffing and some items he has to stop and chew, like a candy wrapper and a piece of somebody’s shoe. I take these things away from him and he briefly considers whether we know each other well enough for me to take those kinds of liberties.

We are all broken, I say to him. And we all still have to dance.

We never got married because I’ve finally learned that if you have to bring the law into your personal relationships, then you’re doing it wrong.

I walked around on the alert for love. I was an appreciator of people’s best moments.