Cassidy

“When a person you love dies, the calendar becomes a minefield. Anyone who has lost someone knows this. There is the loved one’s birthday. One’s own Birthday. Various national and religious holidays, if one is religious. All of these days are difficult in their own ways. But the anniversary is different. On the anniversary of the loved one’s death, you slip backward through time to this same day, one, five, ten years ago. You live it all over again, minute by minute.”
― Alexis Schaitkin, Saint X

“The blame game could be exhausting sometimes. The blame game could make you lose your mind… all the infinitesimal outcomes, each path breaking up into a million other paths every time you heedlessly chose one, taking you on a journey that you’d never find your way back from.”
― Lisa Jewell, Then She Was Gone

“sometimes I just want to sit in the same place forever because I don't have the energy for another day without Cal in it.”
― Cath Crowley, Words in Deep Blue

“Life is messy. You know the only time it’s not? When you’re not living it—when you’re just going through the motions.”
― Vi Keeland, The Invitation