Tamara Grand

“Love is giving the world away, and being loved is having the whole world to give.”
― Emily Henry, The Love That Split the World

“We must do the same with death in our lives: resolve it, give it meaning, put it into context, however hard that might be.”
― Yann Martel, The High Mountains of Portugal

“loss splits your world into people who get it and people who don’t. It’s human nature to try to make things not feel as awful as they are, which is why people say garbage like ‘Everything happens for a reason.’ But you’ve never done that. You never tried to pretend. Even that night—I’d done something you should have been angry at me for, but instead, you saw that I was hurting and you gave me comfort. You weren’t trying to make me talk about it, you weren’t telling me it was going to be okay; you were just…there with me. It was such a relief.”
― Bethany Chase, Results May Vary

“And sometimes, we don’t talk about things because we don’t want to be comforted. We don’t want anyone to tell us it wasn’t our fault, or that they forgive us, or that we did the best we could. We want to hold on to that pain because we think that’s what we deserve. We worry that if we let it go, we’re dishonoring it.”
― Emily Henry, The Love That Split the World