AlbaCanta

“IN LEO’S ROOM, I FIND the small stuffed giraffe, Max, on the floor beside the bed. I carry him down the hall, feeling the soft synthetic fur, the thick plush: all the pain and grief and tragedy accreted on this thing of string and cloth and stuffing, but how much Leo loves it, needs it, is soothed by it. That, I suppose, is how the brave do it, they just put it all together, the good and the bad, and they hold it tight to themselves, and walk on with it.”
― Jacqueline Holland, The God of Endings

“They weren’t going to catch me. I was the motherfucking Gingerbread Man.”
― F.T. Lukens, Spell Bound

“Children do deserve perfect love, but it isn't because they're perfect, which means it has to be some other word besides 'deserve'; but I don't know what the word is. But then it's true for adults too; after all, we're just the warped remains of imperfectly loved children. None of us gets the perfect love we ought, but maybe that's what life is for, to give us time to collect it in bits and pieces, a little here, a little there. Maybe we're supposed to put it together ourselves slowly.”
― Jacqueline Holland, The God of Endings

“I think you can feel unhappy about your situation and still acknowledge the challenges others have. It's not one or the other.”
― F.T. Lukens, Otherworldly