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

“The real horror of my life is not that I've killed some terrible people. The real horror is that the people I've loved didn't love me back.”
― Caroline Kepnes, Hidden Bodies

“... 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

“A bird awoke in his chest, and it cautiously spread its wings, amazed to find that it was still alive. It wanted out. It wanted to burst from his chest, taking his heart with it, and soar up into the sky.”
― Nina George, The Little Paris Bookshop