Anelise

“I’m sorry for your loss? Why do people say that? The loss is the least of your problems. It’s the pain that follows we should be sorry for. A loss is an event, a moment in time. But grief is relentless—a simmering flame that can be stoked by a whisper. It burrows down in the deep recesses of your heart, then surges up like bile, filling your lungs until it hurts to breathe.”
― Susan Walter, Good as Dead

“The stay-at-home mom had not evolved much beyond a wild animal—hunt, feed, rest, repeat. I was the busy lioness, in constant search of our next meal, while my male lion husband lounged in his cave.”
― Susan Walter, Good as Dead

“We all choose our individual narratives in life, the stories we want to believe about ourselves. And if we believe a new narrative strongly enough, others will believe it, too.”
― Loreth Anne White, In the Deep

“The future was something taken for granted. It was always there, waiting to be lived.”
― Charlie Donlea, The Girl Who Was Taken