“Happiness to me isn’t a presence, it’s an absence. The absence of worry, of fear of sadness, the thoughts and compulsions that led my life for so long. I’d worked hard to get myself to where I was right now. I’d pulled myself out of the chaos of my own mind – and routine is what got me there.”

“Happiness to me isn’t a presence, it’s an absence. The absence of worry, of fear of sadness, the thoughts and compulsions that led my life for so long. I’d worked hard to get myself to where I was right now. I’d pulled myself out of the chaos of my own mind – and routine is what got me there.”

— Emma Noyes