Ocean

“Life [...] was a taste of our collective
inevitability, as if we were trying on a future with no sense that we might
one day have to give it back. Or, as an old colleague once put it: It was not
the number of years we spent up there but the years they were.”
― Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

“By living, I am, by default, leaving him.”
― Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

“The minutes keep coming and I cannot
swat them away. I sit in this earthly lump I cart around, hating my eyes
fixed in their sockets, hating my heart, so showy in its persistence. I wish I
could ball up my skin, drop it under the seat, and watch it roll away. I, too,
am the subject of whispers.”
― Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

“Die meisten Menschen vergessen, dass es häufig die kleinen Dinge sind, die zählen. Alle sind so damit beschäftigt, an Orten des Wartens zu warten.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places