Alyssa

“I can’t hold on to the past and grab for the future at the same time. I have to choose. Eventually, we all have to choose.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, Other Birds

“Maybe happy now, happy for a moment, is all we really get. Happy forever seems a shitload to ask in a world on fire.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Women

“Part of being alive is figuring out the balance between what you want, what you need, and what you have with what you don’t want, don’t need, and don’t have.”
― Jessica Anya Blau, Mary Jane

“What difference did it make if I had my Privacy and my Self-reliance and my Freedom if I felt like this? I was in a state of yearning, and I had been for years. I was not happy—had almost never been happy.”
― Walter Tevis, Mockingbird