Garance

“I thought it would be the same as everything else in my life - difficult and sad - because I was a difficult and sad person. But that's not what I am anymore if I ever was. 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

“To read your letters is to gather flowers from within myself, pluck a blossom here, a fern there, arrange and rearrange them in ways to suit a sunny room.”
― Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone

“And there, in the tiny kitchen, which was the place he'd [known] that he loved her, Laurent wept. For him, for her, for all that could have been, but never would be now.”
― Lucinda Riley, The Seven Sisters

“If God wanted me to give you up, he wouldn't have made me who I am.”
― Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You