Caitlin Miller > Quotes

“Life requires that you fight for yourself. No one can fight your battles or take on the weight of your problems for you. It's something you to have to do for yourself. But you never have to fight by yourself.”
― Caitlin Miller, The Memories We Painted

“Being brave sometimes means letting someone hold you together when you're falling apart.”
― Caitlin Miller, The Memories We Painted

“Forgiving someone allows you to start over again. Differently than before. And it may be a harder kind of diferent in the beginning, but in the end, it’s a better one.”
― Caitlin Miller, The Memories We Painted

“Pain is self-isolating, and it wants you to focus only on yourself and not give a thought to how your pain is affecting those around you.”
― Caitlin Miller, The Memories We Painted

“But maybe... we're not meant to be enough. Because if we were, then all our efforts wouldn't mean anything to us. We wouldn't know the difference between giving it all or giving nothing. Nothing would hold value or purpose.”
― Caitlin Miller, Our Yellow Tape Letters

“I’m learning that forgiveness will take my heart from a graveyard to a garden—from a place of death to a place of life. Where things can grow and heal.”
― Caitlin Miller, Our Yellow Tape Letters

“No one knows what the future holds but God alone. And that's a terrifying thing . . . because God allows heartbreak. Hurt. Loss. Abandonment. He hates those things just as much as Sophie and I, but in a broken world, bad things happen. And yes, God brings good through it, but that doesn't mean He wishes we had to go through it, and neither do we.”
― Caitlin Miller, The Memories We Painted

“It’s okay to be broken. It’s okay to hurt and grieve and fall apart. We don’t have to try and cover up the cracks and patch the holes that loss and grief cut and puncture us with. We can just feel… and I think true strength isn’t shown by how well you can keep it together, but how willing you are to be honest with your emotions and face them, not deny them.”
― Caitlin Miller, Our Yellow Tape Letters