Running Backward Quotes

“He betrayed me so badly that I didn’t even know if I had the same love for him anymore. I wanted him to prove himself otherwise, because I wanted back the good feelings. But because the trust had been broken, I couldn’t believe anything he did or said.

I was left wondering how this man could have been there all along, yet I never saw it.”
― Jacqueline Simon Gunn, Running Backward

“Freedom and inner peace are not something we fight for, but something we find only when we learn to let the battle go.”
― Jacqueline Simon Gunn, Running Backward

“I realized that real love, the kind that lasts a lifetime, is never possessive. It’s never suffocating. It breathes. It lives. We feel it. But we also know how to let the attachment go.”
― Jacqueline Simon Gunn, Running Backward

“We are tempted by our familiar way of doing things however maladaptive or self-destructive they can be.”
― Jacqueline Simon Gunn, Running Backward