Shelby

“You have to let it go if you're going to keep moving, if you're going to survive, because the past doesn't need a future. It has no use for what comes next. The past is greedy, always swallowing you up, always taking. If you don't hold it back, if you don't dam it up, it will spread and take and drown.
The past is not a receding horizon. Rather, it advances one moment at a time, marching steadily forward until it has claimed everything and we become again who we were; we become ghosts when the past catches us. I can't live as long as my past does. It's one or the other.”
― Brandon Taylor, Real Life

“... you can love some all you want, but you can't go into their past and become a part of their formative years.”
― Caroline Kepnes, Hidden Bodies

“She hadn’t had to apologize out loud then, because her apology was changed behavior, never letting anything like that happen again. Jo needed to do the same. Emma has forgiven too many people in her life too easily. She was finally learning to stand up for herself.”
― Meryl Wilsner, Something to Talk About

“Maybe you've got used to feeling guilty for everything you are. Often it's not we who shape words, but the words we use that shape us.”
― Nina George, The Little Paris Bookshop