emily

“Excuse me, universe,” she whispered to the kitchen floor. “When you almost murdered me today—which was rather brutal, by the way, but I can respect that—were you trying to tell me something?” The universe, very enigmatically, did not respond.”
― Talia Hibbert, Get a Life, Chloe Brown

“Look at us, she said. We are all of us in this room
still waiting to be transformed. This is why we search for love.
We search for it all of our lives,
even after we find it.”
― Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective

“You are my sister, my only relation. Do not put your face in the fucking fire.”
― ann patchett, The Dutch House

“Here I lie at the Chapel door,
Here lie I because I'm poor,
The farther in the more you'l pay,
Here lie I as warm as they.”
― Richard De'Ath, TOMBSTONE Humour, Or, The Coffin That Carried Them Off In]