Heather Conyers

“I realize that I only have words and that, from time to time, as I hold them in my arms I am less lonely.”
― Slavenka Drakulić, How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed

“I suspect that no matter what happens I will allow it to hurt me. Eat away at my insides, as it were—as it will be. As it always has been. Why am I so accessible? Why do I give myself to people who will always and should always remain strangers? I have always relied on the cruelty of strangers and I must stop it now.”
― Carrie Fisher, The Princess Diarist