Writing Through Hardship Quotes

“Sometimes the smallest gestures—scribbled gratitude, a half-sentence shared, even just showing up in pain—are how we stay tethered to life. Beneath the spirals of shame and the weight of unspoken suffering, there’s still a flicker. A breath. A reach toward connection. And that, in its fragile, fumbling way, is a form of survival. A kind of love.”
― Jonathan Harnisch, Sex, Drugs, and Schizophrenia