Starla

“She didn’t want to talk about the ending. So she talked about the story itself. “It’s easy to look at our time together and think that we were so unlucky. But isn’t it better to spend ten years really loving someone, rather than forty years growing bored or weary or bitter? When we think about the greatest love stories ever written, we aren’t judging them by their length. Many of them were even briefer than my marriage with Maura. But our story—mine and Maura’s—it felt deep, and it felt whole, despite its length. It was an entire, wonderful tale in and of itself, and even though I’ve been given more chapters than Maura, her pages were the ones you couldn’t put down. The ones that I’ll keep rereading, over and over, for the rest of my life. Our decade together, our story, was a gift.”
― Nikki Erlick, The Measure

“Ay, Marisol. When will you learn that living with something you don’t love is not living at all?”
― Annette Chavez Macias, Big Chicas Don't Cry

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“What must be done must be done, whatever the price, the cost, the pain. One day we all must walk through fire.”
― A.J. Hartley and David Hewson, Macbeth