Jolie

“Apparently you couldn’t stop loving some people, or needing their love, even when you knew better.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Four Winds

“If the pain is in you, it’s in you. It follows you everywhere. Can’t outrun it. Can’t erase it. Can’t push it away; it only comes back. The way I’ve been thinking, after all that’s happened, maybe there’s only one way to survive it. You have to let it in. Let it hurt you. And don’t wait. It’ll reach you eventually. Might as well be now.”
― Val Emmich, Dear Evan Hansen

“In the naïveté of youth, her parents had seemed like towering presences, omnipotent and all-knowing. But they weren’t that; they were just two broken people.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Great Alone

“Meh is basically a shoulder shrug, and that pretty much sums up the reaction I get from society at large.”
― Val Emmich, Dear Evan Hansen