Karolina

“And although there were things I had intended to say to him, words that had passed through by head many times, words that I had beloved needed to be spoken between us, I said only this: I understand. I could understand anything, under the right circumstances and for the tight person. I was both a strength and a weakness.”
― Katie Kitamura, Intimacies

“If therapy has taught me anything, it’s that you run from your pain in a circle.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Before I Let Go

“It begins with a tremor, a realization that love happens in the fragile context of our mortality. That love and life occur just beyond the reach of our control. There is only one letter of difference between love and lose, and somewhere along the way, for me they became synonymous. I understand now that something broke in me after my parents died that somehow healed wrong, and I started measuring how much I loved people in terms of how much it would hurt to lose them.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Before I Let Go

“But a narrative becomes persuasive not through complexity but conviction,”
― Katie Kitamura, Intimacies