Nat Carroll

“I found it strange that no word exists for a parent who loses a child. If children lose their parents, they are orphans. If a husband loses his wife, he’s a widower. But there’s no word for a parent who loses a child. I’ve come to believe that the event is just too big, too monstrous, too overwhelming for words. No word could ever describe the feeling, so we leave it unsaid.”
― Amanda Peters, The Berry Pickers

“yesterday
the rain tried to imitate my hands
by running down your body
i ripped the sky apart for allowing it”
― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers

“There is no absolute good when it comes to relationships, and it's perfectly healthy to have disagreements with friends and lovers from time to time. I just hope you learn to differentiate the parts from the whole. Just because you like one thing about a person, you don't need to like everything about them, and just because you don't like one thing about a person, it doesn't mean the person as a whole isn't worth your time.”
― Baek Se-hee, I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki

“Poppy... there may come a day when I no longer need to be touching you at all times, but today is not that day.”
― Emily Henry, People We Meet on Vacation