Shelby

“Maybe it doesn’t matter if you need someone during the 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

“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

“Sometimes you’re swimming in unwept tears and you’ll go under if you store them up inside.”
― Nina George, The Little Paris Bookshop

“I like being alive, even if it's occasionally a real struggle and fairly pointless in the grand scheme of things.”
― Nina George, The Little Paris Bookshop