Kai Casey

“the absence of her meant a thousand tomorrows empty of whatever promise they had once held.”
― James McBride, The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

“That’s all of life. All we can hope for. You mustn’t think about the fact that it might end, because then you live like a coward, you never love too much or sing too loudly. You have to take it for granted, the artist thinks, the whole thing: sunrises and slow Sunday mornings and water balloons and another person’s breath against your neck. That’s the only courageous thing a person can do.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

“Voices and words and images from the past drifted through her mind. The good, the bad, the funny, the horrific. She remembered it all in a blinding, electric flash.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Great Alone

“I never really knew the weight of sorrow before, how it stretches you out like an old, wet sweater.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Great Alone