Katie Durow

“The way to turn an ex-lover into a friend is to never stop loving them, to know that when one phase of a relationship ends it can transform into something else. It is to acknowledge that love is both a constant and a variable at the same time.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“I am beginning to realize that we are all raised by children. Children that are shaped by their own traumas, some of them unable to forget or overcome what happened to them before they passed it along (pg. 191)”
― Anna Qu, Made in China: A Memoir of Love and Labor

“What I did not know was that I had hit upon a truth of womanhood: However blameless the life we lead, the passions and the greed of men could bring us to ruin, and there was nothing we could do.”
― Jennifer Saint, Ariadne

“Ang hindi lumingon sa pinanggalingan, hindi makakarating sa paroroonan. One who does not look back at their origin will never arrive at their destination.”
― Meredith Talusan, Fairest: A Memoir