Isabel Reed

“I miss you more than I remember you.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“What I forgot to earmark in that promise was that ice and apathy have ways of instantly repealing all truces and resolutions signed in sunnier moments. - Elio”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“How do you bear it?" he said.
My eyes gave off a faint light, and by it I could see his face, It was a surprise to realise that he was waiting for an answer. I believed I had one. I thought of another dim room, with another prisoner. He had been a craftsman also. On the foundation of his knowledge, civilisation had been built. Prometheus' words deep-running as roots, had waited in me all this time.
"We bear it as best we can," I said.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“To err is human, to forgive divine.”
― Alexander Pope