Teddy

“The way to turn an ex-lover into a friend is to never stop loving them, to know that when one phase of a relationship ends it can transform into something else. It is to acknowledge that love is both a constant and a variable at the same time.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“Every time I remember that my mother is dead, it feels like I’m colliding with a wall that won’t give. There’s no escape, just a hard surface that I keep ramming into over and over, a reminder of the immutable reality that I will never see her again.”
― Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart

“Remember what it's like to be human,”
― Rick Riordan, The Burning Maze

“Emma spent a good deal of time reprimanding me for smoking, then she suddenly told me something that will always remain with me. "I've always known I was a duck," she said, "but I've spent my whole life being told I was a chicken. Every time I try to say 'quack' the world tells me that I have to say "cluck.' I even started believing that I was a chicken and not a duck. Then we started hanging out and I found somebody else who quacked. And that's when I thought: To hell with the, I really am a duck!”
― Tom Felton, Beyond the Wand: The Magic & Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard