Emma Barclay

“what if life is just a collection of essentially unrelated experiences? Why does one thing have to follow meaningfully from another?”
― Sally Rooney, Intermezzo

“And life is more changeable than I thought. I mean a life can be miserable for a long time and then later happy”
― Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You

“But it is not the lives we regret not living that are the real problem. It is the regret itself. It’s the regret that makes us shrivel and wither and feel like our own and other people’s worst enemy.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“Aging is not just decay, you know. It’s growth It’s more than the negative that you’re going to die, it’s also the positive that you understand you’re going to die, and that you live a better life because of it.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson