Eva Steepe

“I wish I could exist in this moment without carrying the baggage I've collected throughout my life. I like being older. I'd rather be me now than me any age prior. But there is this heaviness to aging. Who I am was built on the shoulders of the person I was last year, and the year before, and before, and before.”
― Emily R. Austin, Is This a Cry for Help?

“Thinking how I'd liked so much of my life in love, I felt almost unbearable affection for both my life and them.”
― Sayaka Murata, Vanishing World

“There were days when her eyes felt so full, the tears ran in rivulets. She'd swear that crying had never felt that way before- that before, she'd cry drops, and now, she cried streams. There must be some science to it, one sort of crying for transient pains and another sort for crippling grief.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Cherry Baby

“Suffering is life,” Rodney said. “It’s part and parcel of living. It never really goes away, but you can become bigger around it. Stronger. The things you thought you weren’t capable of are easier than you think.”
― T.J. Klune, We Burned So Bright