Stephanie

“He wants to hold on to this hurt and wrap it in plastic and store it somewhere safe, because it's probably all he'll ever have left of her.”
― Yulin Kuang, How to End a Love Story

“I’m sorry for all the ways I hurt you while you were living, and I wish you could be sorry for all the ways you’ve hurt me since you died.”
― Yulin Kuang, How to End a Love Story

“The kind of ending where someone else sees the best and worst of me and loves me back. We’d be happy together, we’d be sad together, we’d be everything together. And when it’s all over and we’ve reached another ending, my ashes would be scattered over the tree that grows from his body because till death do us part wouldn’t be enough, because I’d need more than one brief eternity with him.”
― Yulin Kuang, How to End a Love Story

“I think we talk about happiness all wrong. As if it’s this fixed state we’re going to reach. Like we’ll just be able to live there, forever. But that’s not my experience with happiness. For me, it comes and goes. It shows up and then disappears like a bubble.”
― Alison Espach, The Wedding People