Samantha

“Sadness can make us bitter or wise. We get to choose.”
― Allen Levi, Theo of Golden

“How entirely undemanding of yourself it was to believe that everything happened to you. And everything was about you. And that your feelings were the only ones that mattered. Worse yet, to afford yourself the role of the victim always—regardless of how grotesquely it required you to twist reality—so that you never had to look in the mirror and admit you were the perpetrator.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Atmosphere

“You can’t love someone out of addiction. All the oceans are the tears of those who have tried”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

“Over and over, she’d learned that what the dead most often conveyed was love and forgiveness. She could only conclude that these were the two most important things in the world—so important that people carried them into the afterlife for the sole purpose of being able to hand them back to the living.”
― Patrick Ryan, Buckeye