“One death is a thousand others—the death of songs and tea and rain.”
― The Bright Years
― The Bright Years
“He finally wins his quiet. It’s the quiet of a battlefield’s aftermath, where all that’s left is carnage.”
― The Bright Years
― The Bright Years
“You can’t control anyone else’s choices, but you start with what you’re given and then you make your own.”
― The Bright Years
― The Bright Years
“The thing about alcoholism is that there’s sickness on both sides. Drink, you’re sick. Don’t drink, you’re sick. A blurred line between medicine and poison.”
― The Bright Years
― The Bright Years
“She’s a wave in an ocean of reminders, and I am quietly drowning.”
― The Bright Years
― The Bright Years
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