Allyson S.

“People talk about grief as emptiness, but it's not empty. It's full. Heavy. Not an absence to fill. A weight to pull. Your skin caught on hooks chained to rough boulders made of all the futures you thought you'd have.”
― Elan Mastai, All Our Wrong Todays

“There's no such thing as the life you're supposed to have.”
― Elan Mastai, All Our Wrong Todays

“These had been his plans. But if there was one thing that life had taught him, it was the futility of making plans. Life had its own agenda.”
― Anthony Horowitz, Magpie Murders

“One of Frank's key tasks was to kill all people of influence, such as teachers, priests, landowners, politicians, lawyers, and artists. Then he began rearranging huge masses of the population: over a span of five years, 860,000 Poles would be uprooted and resettled; 75,000 Germans would take over their lands; 1,300,000 Poles would be shipped to Germany as slave labor; and 330,000 would simply be shot. With”
― Diane Ackerman, The Zookeeper's Wife