Top Highlights

• Now, as I reached for the whole damn box of tissues, I realized my scars had actually formed years earlier. Noah was nothing more than a trigger—one that led me to wonder about the source of my pain.
• Home is not a physical place. It is the place where your soul feels it belongs, where you can unapologetically be yourself, where you are loved for your authentic self. Home is the place where you don’t have to work hard just to be loved.
• The mistake most of us make is that we build our homes in other people in the hope that they will deem us worthy of being welcomed inside. We feel so abandoned and empty when people leave, because we’ve invested so much of ourselves in them.
• the power of taking ownership over building your home, your own space, within yourself.
• It was a kind of cognitive dissonance.