Sasha

“I realized what I felt . . . happy. It was such a strange, unusual feeling—light, calm, as though I’d swallowed sunshine.”
― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

“She asked if Peter would go back to where he was before he was born, the place she had recently come from. Children”
― Alua Arthur, Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End

“When we avoid children’s questions about death, we inadvertently communicate that they should shove their scary thoughts down. That ultimately reinforces a death-phobic culture. Talking to children about death is a delicate balance, but I believe we owe them the truth of our “I don’t know, but what I do know is. .”
― Alua Arthur, Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End