jenna ☽

“When I was visiting her a few years ago she hugged me and said, ‘Tomorrow after you leave I will stand here at this window and remember that yesterday you were right here with me.’ And now she’s dead and I have that feeling all the time, no matter where I stand.”
― Lily King, Writers & Lovers

“I was marking time, I thought. Today, I’m twenty-four and in love and it doesn’t always feel good. Last year, I was lonely. Next year, I’ll be lonely again. These songs will sound right, even if they hit me differently. I felt almost entirely normal and almost exactly like myself.”
― Kaitlyn Tiffany, Everything I Need I Get from You: How Fangirls Created the Internet as We Know It

“When we see our truths as ever-deepening, as beginnings rather than endings, we can hold our most prized truths more loosely. Absolute truths become humble absolutes.”
― Irwin Kula, Yearnings: Embracing the Sacred Messiness of Life

“After all, there is no final arrival in life, but rather a series of arrivals.”
― Irwin Kula, Yearnings: Embracing the Sacred Messiness of Life