“He would often try to think that perhaps that has to be the case: that our teenage years have to simultaneously be the brightest light and the darkest depths, because that’s how we learn to figure out our horizons.”
― My Friends
― My Friends
“You can’t love someone out of addiction. All the oceans are the tears of those who have tried”
― My Friends
― My Friends
“Yet the most remarkable thing about losing a parent is that you don’t even need to miss them for their loss to be felt. The basic function of a parent is just to exist. You have to be there, like ballast in a boat, because otherwise your child capsizes.”
― My Friends
― My Friends
Ryleigh’s 2025 Year in Books
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