Chiona

“I wrote about the future because I wanted to invent it. I wrote about the present so that it wouldn't obliterate me.”
― Billy-Ray Belcourt, Coexistence: Stories

“I'll never know, and neither will you, of the life you don't choose. We'll only know that whatever that sister life was, it was important and beautiful and not ours. It was the ghost ship that didn't carry us. There's nothing to do but salute it from the shore.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

“Like former lovers […] [friends] are the ones whom, from time to time, I seek out on the internet, in the phone directories of distant cities, in the faces I pass on the street. For it’s almost as if they still hold some Proustian key to the mystery of lost time, the answer to the question of who we were when we were friends, and of what has become of us since.”
― Francis Prose

“Most things will be okay eventually, but not everything will be. Sometimes you'll put up a good fight and lose. Sometimes you'll hold on really hard and realize there is no choice but to let go. Acceptance is a small, quiet room.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar