“This book is not about how sometimes the greatest challenges are blessings in disguise. This book is about how sometimes in life everything you have worked for comes crashing down and the only way forward is to rebuild it into something better.” – pg. vii
“I was perfect. Until I wasn’t.” – pg. 10
“Even if you know you are the best in the world, you must be aware that someone is out there trying to take that away from you.” – pg. 48
“When you have trained your entire life for something, […] you feel an overwhelming sense of calm despite your pounding heart.” – pg. 77
“Times like this is what the show is for, to showcase and repackage people going through crisis.” – Lorne Michaels on SNL, pg. 90
“I wasn’t fighting to win; I was fighting not to lose.” – pg. 106
“Losing set me on a path to happiness. It forced me to step back, to reassess and reprioritize.” – pg. 115
“No matter what I had achieved, it was never enough. I dangled the promise of ‘this will be the thing that makes it all worthwhile’ in front of myself like a carrot but instead of ever finding happiness, I only felt more and more unfulfilled. […] There was never going to come a point, no matter how incredible the achievement, where I could say, ‘OK, I did it!’ and just be content in the afterglow forever. I needed to be happy with who I am and the life I had. Not the things I did.” – pg. 264
“We are much more than the tiny boxes that we put ourselves in. […] So much more than the labels we feel forced to use to identify who we are. We are so much more than our jobs. So much more than our worst days. Than our best days. Than any single moment.” – pg. 269
“The present was everything I wanted to be. And it was finally enough.” – pg. 270
“It’s impossible to get everything you ever want in life, but trying is the best part anyway.” – pg. 270
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