It doesn't matter how great your shoes are if you don't accomplish anything in them.

— Martina Boone

It occurred to her that all the bad parts of life, the sad parts, the frightening ones, were meant to be offset by moments and memories like this. She had to be present in it, right here, right now.

— Martina Boone

It took vulnerability to forge strength, the way true courage required fear.

— Martina Boone

Learning to love yourself is easier when you have someone to show you how.

— Martina Boone

Love doesn't come with an on-off switch. It's made of too many threads of memory and hope and heartache that weave themselves into the very core of who you are.

— Martina Boone

Pushing through fear was what eventually set you free.

— Martina Boone

So many of the things she had found lately hadn't been precisely lost. But she wasn't found without them.

— Martina Boone

Sometimes, though, we let ourselves get so used to being 'fine' that we lose track of how 'not fine' we are.

— Martina Boone

The hardest part of changing things is knowing how many needs changing,

— Martina Boone

Things, and people, were always more beautiful when you were afraid to lose them.

— Martina Boone