There is the before. And then there is the after. Happiness is what you choose, what you follow, not what follows you. These are the things I have se…

- Allison Winn Scotch

I press my eyes shut and will the thoughts away. But they refuse to comply, and instead, they lodge themselves in the crevasses of my brain, poking o…

- Allison Winn Scotch

I might have felt broken, but at the end of it all, I didn't allow myself to break.

- Allison Winn Scotch

There's no time to hold grudges when you've seen how fragile things can really be.

- Allison Winn Scotch

Eventually kids become grown-ups too, and from there, the world is whatever they choose to make of it.

- Allison Winn Scotch

There's always more than one path, and to think otherwise is what resigns you to fate.

- Allison Winn Scotch

There is a moment in every relationship when one of the parties senses its imminent demise. There's a moment of incredible clarity when your stomach …

- Allison Winn Scotch

If we always take the path of least resistance, if we embrace inertia, if we never leap, if we never accept accountability for our choices, how can w…

- Allison Winn Scotch

But what's regret anyway? Regret, I am learning these days, is a lot of things. But mostly, it's a slippery seed of longing, of looking back and aski…

- Allison Winn Scotch