“Minds don't rest; they reel and wander and fixate and roll back and reconsider because it's like this, having a mind. Hearts don't idle; they swell and constrict and break and forgive and behold because it's like this, having a… — Kelly Corrigan Copy Share Image
“I shift my position on the sofa, so my head is on a big, lumpy pillow in Greenie's lap and Georgia is leanign back… — Kelly Corrigan Copy Share
And it occurs to me that maybe the reason my mother was so exhausted all the time wasn’t because she was doing so much… — Kelly Corrigan Copy Share
The truth is, I'd like to be closer to my kids. I'd like to share more with them. But that's not what this time… — Kelly Corrigan Copy Share
“How seriously can I take myself? I'm just one of six billion people, right?” — Kelly Corrigan Copy Share
“Minds don't rest; they reel and wander and fixate and roll back and reconsider because it's like this, having a mind. Hearts don't idle;… — Kelly Corrigan Copy Share
Shortly before I turned 37 and my older daughter turned 3, I was diagnosed with breast cancer: stage III of IV. — Kelly Corrigan Copy Share
He defined me first, as parents do. Those early characterizations can become the shimmering self-image we embrace or the limited, stifling perception we rail… — Kelly Corrigan Copy Share
My readers often say to me, 'If we lived next door to each other, we'd be best friends.' That is precisely what I wanted… — Kelly Corrigan Copy Share
“I try to be one of the exceptional people who can live with the complexity of things, who are at peace with the unknown… — Kelly Corrigan Copy Share
It's clear to you immediately that you can have anything you want when you have cancer. — Kelly Corrigan Copy Share
“My default answer to everything is no. As soon as I hear the inflection of inquiry in your voice, the word no forms in… — Kelly Corrigan Copy Share
“When you are in pain, and you see someone else in pain, there is really nothing as satisfying as giving them comfort in the… — Kelly Corrigan Copy Share
“At first parenthood was as I had expected, exhausting, sometimes heinous, and occasionally divine. I held my children close enough to feel them breathe,… — Kelly Corrigan Copy Share
