You are not broken. You break again and again because that's what breaking means. To be whole.

- Brenda Shaughnessy

Death and life are, for most of us, too complex to comprehend, but Alex Lemon can pretty casually, accurately, and marvelously correlate them to heav…

- Brenda Shaughnessy

I came to see that what constitutes strength is not just a muscle or will. It can also include the most desperate vulnerability, the saddest heartach…

- Brenda Shaughnessy

I've been melted into something too easy to spill. I make more and more of myself in order to make more and more of the baby. He takes it, th…

- Brenda Shaughnessy

Strength means...acknowledging each of those feelings, your questions and ideas and faith and terror, and meeting what comes with the full force of y…

- Brenda Shaughnessy

Strength means honoring your entire range of emotion, even your despair and heartbreak.

- Brenda Shaughnessy

What if all possible pain was only the grief of truth?

- Brenda Shaughnessy

How anyone becomes herself/is a mystery.

- Brenda Shaughnessy