Ami Church

“I can’t lose the thing I’ve held onto for so long, you know?” My face twists up from the pain of pushing it out. “I just really need it to be a love story, you know? I really, really need it to be that.”
“I know,” she says.
“Because if it isn’t a love story, then what is it”? I look to her glassy eyes, her face of wide open empathy. “It’s my life,” I say. “This has been my whole life.”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

“We are the unwilling, led by the unqualified, doing the unnecessary, for the ungrateful.”
― Matthew Quick, The Reason You're Alive

“This big ol' world and we only get to go through it once. The saddest thing there is, you ask me.”
― Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half

“A mother’s heart breaks a million ways in her lifetime.”
― Ashley Audrain, The Push