Elaine

“All your feelings need to know they matter, all our feelings need to be heard, and all our feelings have a right to be acknowledged.”
― Jessica Baum, Anxiously Attached: Becoming More Secure in Life and Love

“I have a riddle for you, Louis says to the psychologist. Go ahead, she replies with a smile. The poor have it the rich need it, and if you eat it you die. The psychologist gives up. It's nothing. Nothing? Nothing. The poor have nothing, the rich need nothing, and if you eat nothing you die.”
― Hervé Le Tellier, The Anomaly

“Grief is like a deep, dark hole. It calls like a siren. Come to me, lose yourself here. And you fight it and you fight it and you fight it, but when you finally do succub and jump down into it, you can't quite believe how deep it is. It feels as if this is how you will live for the rest of your life, falling. Terrified and devastate, until you yourself die.

But that is the mirage.

That is grief's dizzying spell.

The fall isn't never-ending. It does have a ground floor.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Carrie Soto Is Back

“Maybe it doesn't matter if you need someone during everyday moments of your life. Maybe what matters is that when you need someone, they are the one you need. Maybe needing someone isn't about not being able to do it without them. Maybe needing someone is about it being easier if they are by your side.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, After I Do