“I came to realize that this is what it really means to be alive – to not look away from any of it – and that all I was really doing before was pretending: floating through my days half-numb, half-involved, half-awake, thinking I was really living when in fact I was missing it all.”

“I came to realize that this is what it really means to be alive – to not look away from any of it – and that all I was really doing before was pretending: floating through my days half-numb, half-involved, half-awake, thinking I was really living when in fact I was missing it all.”

— Laura McKowen