Escape is not about moving from one place to another. It's about becoming more. Mary E. Pearson More Quotes by Mary E. Pearson More Quotes From Mary E. Pearson Picture yourself five years from now. Where do you want to be? Remember that. Every day. That's how you'll get there. Mary E. Pearson wantrememberyears Maybe we all have a dark place inside of us, a place where dark thoughts and darker dreams live, but it doesn't have to become who we are. Mary E. Pearson who-we-aredarkdream Do certain events in our lives leave a permanent mark, freezing a piece of us in time, and that becomes a touchstone that we measure the rest of our lives against? Mary E. Pearson markpiecesevents Percentages! Those are for economists, polls, and politicians. Percentages can't define your identity. Mary E. Pearson pollspoliticianidentity Multiple closets for different needs. Overkill. Mary E. Pearson closetsdifferentneeds I used to be someone. Mary E. Pearson used-to-beused My memory is coming back. It is curious how it comes. Each day, a rush of pieces, loosely connected, unimportant bits, snake through me. They click, click, click into my brain, like links being snapped together. And then they are done. A small chain of memories that fill in one tiny part of my life. They come out of nowhere, and most are not important. Mary E. Pearson snakesbrainmemories I still cry on waking. I'm not sure why. I feel nothing. Nothing I can name, anyway. It's like breathing - something that happens over which I have no control. (6) Mary E. Pearson wakingbreathingnames Pieces. A bit for someone here. A bit there. And sometimes they don't add up to anything whole. But you are so busy dancing. Delivering. You don't have time to notice. Or are afraid to notice. And then one day you have to look. And it's true. All of your pieces fill up other people's holes. But they don't fill your own. Mary E. Pearson one-daydancingpeople I thought grandmothers had to like you. It’s a law or something. Mary E. Pearson grandmothergrandmalaw Which weakness shall I tell her? “I walk funny,†I say, and she’s satisfied with that. (inside joke) Mary E. Pearson satisfiedweaknesswalks People will notice the beauty of what they usually ignore ~ Mary E. Pearson people You've always been two people. The Jenna who wants to please and the Jenna who secretly resents in. They won't break, you know. Your parents never thought you were perfect. You did. Mary E. Pearson perfecttwopeople Words have longer lives than people. Mary E. Pearson longer-lifepeople It can take years to mold a dream. It takes only a fraction of a second for it to be shattered. Mary E. Pearson molddreamyears ...and time becomes a forgotten detail. Mary E. Pearson detailsforgotten Maybe the impossible is possible when you take everything else away. Mary E. Pearson impossiblelife We all have a dark place in us. It's what we do with it and the choice we make. Mary E. Pearson choicesdarklife Things I can feel. Hard. Soft. Rough. Smooth. But the inside kind of feel, it is all the same, like foggy mush. Is that the part of me that is still asleep? (9) Mary E. Pearson smoothroughkind Maybe staying on the surface keeps her from returning to a place where she can't breathe. Mary E. Pearson surfacebreathelife
