Abel

“The trouble with denial is that when the truth comes, you aren't ready.”
― Nina LaCour, We Are Okay

“The funny thing about my procrastination was that I was almost done with the screenplay. I was like a person who had fought dragons and lost limbs and crawled through swamps and now, finally, the castle was visible. I could see tiny children waving flags on the balcony; all I had to do was walk across a field to get to them. But all of a sudden I was very, very sleepy. And the children couldn't believe their eyes as I folded down to my knees and fell to the ground face-first, with my eyes open. Motionless, I watched ants hurry in and out of a hole and I knew that standing up again would be a thousand times harder than the dragon or the swamp and so I did not even try. I just clicked on one thing after another after another.”
― Miranda July, It Chooses You

“I was okay just a moment ago. I will learn how to be okay again.”
― Nina LaCour, We Are Okay

“When he died, all things soft and beautiful and bright would be buried with him.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles