Anna

“Bad days come in degrees. They are not all equally bad. And the really bad ones, though horrible to live through, are useful for later. You store them up. A bank of bad days. The day you had to run out of the supermarket. The day you were so depressed your tongue wouldn’t move. The day you made your parents cry. The day you nearly threw yourself off a cliff. So if you are having another bad day you can say, Well, this feels bad, but there have been worse. And even when you can think of no worse day – when the one you are living is the very worst there has ever been – you at least know the bank exists and that you have made a deposit.”
― Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive

“I promised to love you forever, in a time when I didn’t know if I'd live to see the start of another week. Now it looks like forever is finally running out. I never stopped loving you. I tried, for the sake of my own sanity, but I never even got close, and I never stopped hoping either.”
― Iona Grey, Letters to the Lost

“But we must remind ourselves that we are never truly apart from those we love very much. We might not be able to see them or speak to them or hold them in our arms, but we carry them always in our hearts.”
― Iona Grey, The Glittering Hour

“You ever hear somebody blithely say something so amazingly plastered over with bullshit it just makes your eyes bug?”
― Elizabeth Bear, Karen Memory