There's always more than one path, and to think otherwise is what resigns you to fate. — Allison Winn Scotch Destiny Copy Share Image
“The past is who you are. The future is what you do with that.” — Allison Winn Scotch Future Copy Share Image
“My spine shoots up straight like I'd been plugged into an eight-volt, and the mere sight of him literally causes my breath… — Allison Winn Scotch Copy Share Image
“Mostly, people are who they are. But if you accept this about them, you can move forward and build from there—then, they… — Allison Winn Scotch Accept Copy Share Image
“motherhood is like this: a series of tiny moments that add up to an enormous love, with lots of other moments of… — Allison Winn Scotch Love Copy Share Image
“Jake: I'm not offering up excuses of any kind... I was just saying that sometimes shit happens, and I don't have a… — Allison Winn Scotch Choice Copy Share Image
“There is a moment in every relationship when one of the parties senses its imminent demise. There's a moment of incredible clarity… — Allison Winn Scotch Clarity Copy Share Image
“What was the one moment we lost our way? Or was it a series of moments that snowballed into something larger, something… — Allison Winn Scotch Moment Copy Share Image
“I'd recognized it only recently. I wasn't sure if it was because she had changed or I had, but it didn't really… — Allison Winn Scotch Noticed Copy Share Image
“You have to know... What you have to know in all of this, through all of this, is that no matter how… — Allison Winn Scotch Confusion Copy Share Image
“Happiness is what you choose, what you follow, not what follows you. These are the things I have seen, these are the… — Allison Winn Scotch Follow Copy Share Image
“The strangest thing about returning to an enclave that encapsulated your youth is that you feel like nothing should have changed. Like… — Allison Winn Scotch Returning Copy Share Image
“And that, despite the fact that we'd broken up seven years prior and I'd been the one to finally—firmly and permanently—walk away… — Allison Winn Scotch Another woman Copy Share Image
“After Megan's death, Tyler spiraled downward into an abyss of steely blankness, as if Megan were the only color in his life,… — Allison Winn Scotch Death Copy Share Image
“Outside, with Labor Day having come and gone, summer is fighting a dying battle against the fall air. The leaves are hanging… — Allison Winn Scotch Autumn Copy Share Image
“I feel like I’m caught in time, caught in a perfect moment inside a snow globe that maybe I’d beg my mom… — Allison Winn Scotch Gas station Copy Share Image
“That's the thing," Jo says. "You think you know what you're in for. I mean, you tell yourself that, of course, it's… — Allison Winn Scotch Fucking Copy Share Image
No one really can have any idea if it's luck or happenstance or timing or fate or the universe or just smart… — Allison Winn Scotch Can do Copy Share Image
“regret is just misplaced nostalgia. That you can look back fondly or even wistfully on pieces of your life and hound yourself… — Allison Winn Scotch Life Copy Share Image
If we always take the path of least resistance, if we embrace inertia, if we never leap, if we never accept accountability… — Allison Winn Scotch Accepting Copy Share Image
But what's regret anyway? Regret, I am learning these days, is a lot of things. But mostly, it's a slippery seed of… — Allison Winn Scotch Answers Copy Share Image
“But I suppose our childhoods are seeds inside of us that plant roots forever, even when we’re certain their life cycles have… — Allison Winn Scotch Children Copy Share Image
“...I realize that lessons are meant to be learned, honored even, or else you can spend your life running so far from… — Allison Winn Scotch Embracing Copy Share Image
“The sun will sink lower soon enough, turning the fields into open black space, ushering another day out, another day in--one after… — Allison Winn Scotch Another day Copy Share Image
I might have felt broken, but at the end of it all, I didn't allow myself to break. — Allison Winn Scotch Break Copy Share Image
I like to take inspiration from people who do things that I could never do. — Allison Winn Scotch Inspiration Copy Share Image
“There's no time to hold grudges when you've seen how fragile things can really be.” — Allison Winn Scotch Fragile Copy Share Image
Eventually kids become grown-ups too, and from there, the world is whatever they choose to make of it. — Allison Winn Scotch Adults Copy Share Image
“I smiled sweetly and pushed up on my tiptoes, kissing him softly on his too-chapped lips, and agreed. "Yes, to us.” — Allison Winn Scotch Gaze Copy Share Image
“And now here he was. With his love and his hope and, yes, his imperfections, that, in a few months if everything… — Allison Winn Scotch Another man Copy Share Image
That you can look back fondly or even wistfully on pieces of your life and hound yourself with endless what-ifs, but nothing… — Allison Winn Scotch Endless Copy Share Image
“Nothing is different here and now than it used to be: The people whom I need most are gone, and the ones… — Allison Winn Scotch Changed Copy Share Image
“When I got to college, when I finally fled the suffocation that I'd built around myself—because, to my father's credit, he'd never… — Allison Winn Scotch Family Copy Share Image
We all have those moments where we realize how easily our lives could be so different, for better or for worse. I… — Allison Winn Scotch Afternoon Copy Share Image
“life sometimes grants us second chances, and if they should fall upon you, if you should be lucky enough to be offered… — Allison Winn Scotch Another chance Copy Share Image
There is the before. And then there is the after. Happiness is what you choose, what you follow, not what follows you.… — Allison Winn Scotch Choose Copy Share Image
I press my eyes shut and will the thoughts away. But they refuse to comply, and instead, they lodge themselves in the… — Allison Winn Scotch Baby Copy Share Image
“Now—after years of knowing what real problems were, after living with a man who was cautiously loving but no longer fawningly committed,… — Allison Winn Scotch Lost myself Copy Share Image
