Bea

“I am happier than I’ve ever been. Don’t yet know that there is a level of happiness even deeper, one so intense it hurts, almost like loss or grief. A happiness so bright and hot you feel like it could incinerate you.”
― Emily Henry, Happy Place

“When we understand what we don’t believe, we better understand what we do.”
― Emily R. Austin, Is This a Cry for Help?

“I organize it all into piles, into solvable problems, into scenarios from which I can devise escape plans. I am back in the thick of it, gazing out across the chessboard and trying to mitigate whatever happens next.

But for a minute, upstairs, with Charlie’s arms tight across my back, everything was okay.

I was okay.

Drifting in a comforting, bodiless dark, where nothing needed to be fixed and I could just—I think of Sally’s arms lifting at her sides—settle.”
― Emily Henry, Book Lovers

“That means we grew up exposed to the same school curriculum, news, and pop culture. I'm disturbed to think we followed the same steps, in the same world, in the same timeline, and he turned out like this.”
― Emily R. Austin, Is This a Cry for Help?