Samantha

“She was what all the dead are: whatever the living make them.”
― Alexis Schaitkin, Saint X

“I wince now at the words I said in the past to grieving friends. "Find peace in your memories," I used to say. To have love snatched from you, especially unexpectedly, and then to be told to turn to memories. Rather than succor, my memories bring eloquent stabs of pain that say, "This is what you will never again have.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Notes on Grief

“For them, ten years ago, that's another lifetime.
For you, it's yesterday.”
― Stephen Graham Jones, The Only Good Indians

“She had to convince herself. How could she bear to think that he had loved her and yet destroyed her anyway?”
― Chloe Gong, These Violent Delights