Elijah Dougherty

“Grief is a place a person goes alone.”
― Sam Quinones, Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic

“Our kind of love can go into remission, but it’s always waiting to return. Like the world’s sweetest cancer.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“But now she couldn’t deny what was staring her plainly in the face: dogs in China ate better than doctors in North Korea.”
― Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

“She was the third beer. Not the first one, which the throat receives with almost tearful gratitude; nor the second, that confirms and extends the pleasure of the first. But the third, the one you drink because it's there, because it can't hurt, and because what difference does it make?”
― Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon