Rhian Quotes

#1. For once, I wished I wasn't so broken, so Rhian had a best friend who was strong and not afraid to love, to hold up as an example of what was possible. Instead, I was her excuse that she wasn't being irrational. I was her enabler.

Samantha Young

#2. Traveling, she realized, was like a slow dismemberment of the body. It plucked the heart out of her and split it into pieces, leaving a bit behind wherever she went, never to be whole again.

Rhian J. Martin

#3. Surely the day will come when color means nothing more than the skin tone, when religion is seen uniquely as a way to speak one's soul; when birth places have the weight of a throw of the dice and all men are born free, when understanding breeds love and brotherhood.

Josephine Baker

#4. So I got creative. Carrots! (They seem to be the answer to most of my food problems.)

Minecrafty Family Books

#5. The worst thing in the world can happen, but the next day the sun will come up. And you will eat your toast. And you will drink your tea.

Rhian Ellis

#6. Are guilt and regret not messages from inside of us, letting us know that our moral compasses have been recalibrated and are pointing in the right direction?

Rhian J. Martin

#7. We cannot honor those we have lost if we lose our minds. - Charmainism

Charmaine Smith Ladd

#8. Doing something for yourself like running, and using it to test yourself, will only make you feel better about your career or your family role.

Joan Benoit

#9. How can poetry be something we study, but also something that makes us cry?

Rhian Williams

#10. The most important part of design is finding all the issues to be resolved. The rest are details

Soumeet Lanka

#11. When you grab hold of one thing, you ultimately have to let go of another. Our fingers have spaces between them, just like life, and things fall through. Part of my life was ending so a new part could begin. But first you have to let go. You have to open your fingers and let slip.

Katie Kacvinsky

#12. People are like mussels. You can put them in a vat of boiling water, and some of them will pop open immediately. Some of them will have to float around in the water for a bit, then they'll slowly release. Others never open up at all, no matter what sort of hot water they're in.

Rhian J. Martin

#13. The benefit of carrying the entire world on your shoulders was that you didn't have to stare it in the face.

Rhian J. Martin

#14. It was all very isolating to think about, what people use to define themselves and their actions. And at the end of the day, did it make people feel better? Maybe it did. Maybe it gave them something to grasp at in the ambiguous vein of life on Earth.

Rhian J. Martin

#15. Time limits tend to turn everything predictable and mundane into a novelty.

Rhian J. Martin

#16. Such was the cyclical nature of Galway life: finding tragedy in the simple things and simplicity in the tragic things.

Rhian J. Martin

#17. A lot of moms give their kids line reads. My mom wasn't put in that position because I always had an acting teacher helping with the feelings rather than how to say something.

Kirsten Dunst