You Cannot Mess This Up Quotes

“One of the benefits of being totally self-absorbed, or programmed to accept your circumstances as the way things should be, especially in upper middle-class America, is that you are, by nature, unaware of the unacceptable things going on right under your nose.”
― Amy Weinland Daughters, You Cannot Mess This Up: A True Story That Never Happened

“The truth is, I really should have written the thank-you note sooner after the wedding, and you know what? I should have done a bunch of other crap I should have done too, but that doesn’t mean people, any people, much less your own grandmother, should call you up and tell you that you suck and they don’t want to have anything to do with you anymore. But, maybe that’s what forgiveness isn’t, it isn’t so much about saying what the other person did was OK, but that you are releasing them from it for your sake. So you can move on. So you can have peace. So you can be a suburban wife and mother who is in her right mind at the Cub Scout banquet. And maybe, on the flip side, that’s what we’re all hoping other people will do after we’ve disappointed and hurt them. Because of all the things I didn’t understand, my lack of perfection wasn’t one of them.”
― Amy Weinland Daughters, You Cannot Mess This Up: A True Story That Never Happened

“I was still that unsure girl from the South, who would never, ever want to inconvenience the rest of the group, or the rest of the world for that matter. That—other people not getting what I perceived they wanted because of me—would be worse than me not getting what I wanted. It was true even if I didn’t really know what anyone really wanted—myself included.”
― Amy Weinland Daughters, You Cannot Mess This Up: A True Story That Never Happened

“Thanksgiving Day, the day we feast. The day we pray, and eat the beast.”
― Amy Weinland Daughters, You Cannot Mess This Up: A True Story That Never Happened

“Life was more blurry than fast, slipping into a mesmerizing normality. Disguised as humdrum and mundane, the routine began to suck the enchantment and marvel out of everything.”
― Amy Weinland Daughters, You Cannot Mess This Up: A True Story That Never Happened

“We were reaching that age when all the stuff that had once seemed so far off was bearing down on us with inevitable dread and wonder.”
― Amy Weinland Daughters, You Cannot Mess This Up: A True Story That Never Happened

“When, if ever, do people find themselves if they’ve had somebody else tell them who they are for all of their formative years?”
― Amy Weinland Daughters, You Cannot Mess This Up: A True Story That Never Happened

“But that’s Louisiana, lots of crazy Cajun stuff goes on over there. Who knows what they’re doing in those swamps!”
― Amy Weinland Daughters, You Cannot Mess This Up: A True Story That Never Happened