Katie Stride

“If I’m honest, I thought it would kill me. The grief. But you know what’s worse? It doesn’t kill you. You go on, living … surviving, whether you want to or not.”
― Evie Woods, The Story Collector

“You need to be happy; you need to do something that makes you laugh every day. You need to spend your time in a way that means when you climb into bed at night, you feel content and you don’t dread the alarm going off the next morning, full of fear or sickness at the prospect of having to get up and do it all again.”
― Amanda Prowse, Swimming to Lundy

“To hang on from day to day and from week to week, spinning out a present that had no future, seemed an unconquerable instinct, just as one’s lungs will always draw the next breath so long as there is air available.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Are you sure this is really the edge? Perhaps go a bit further . . . just to be sure.”
― Kelsey Osgood, How to Disappear Completely