Holding Onto Quotes

“Now that I had something to lose all I could think about was holding onto the thing I'd found.”
― Shaun David Hutchinson, All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages – A Kirkus Starred LGBTQ Historical Fiction Anthology

“Do you really want to hold onto empty things? We don’t have to give anything up. They just need transforming. A thousand years of happiness would be much better than another thousand years of tears, don’t you think?”
― Donna Goddard, Faith

“The walls are lined with Bankers Boxes and plastic bins. These boxes contain things like rag dolls with missing eyes and tablecloths permanently marred with mustard stains because my mother does not believe in throwing anything away. In her opinion, failures of foresight are the worst kind.”
― Laura van den Berg, State of Paradise