Elizabeth

“It still hurt like a Texan’s butthole after a chili-eating contest, but the blood had stopped pouring. She’d mend.”
― K.F. Breene, Magical Midlife Dating

“what real love is. It is blind devotion, unquestioning self-humiliation, utter submission, trust and belief against yourself and against the whole world, giving up your whole heart and soul to the smiter—as I did!”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“That’s the lot of being a parent: at first all activities are done for their sake, and in the end for ours. Eventually we realize that everything is about us wanting to be wherever they are, as much as possible, for as long as they let us.”
― Fredrik Backman, The Winners

“We can hide in a cupboard under the stairs our whole life and it’ll still find us. Death will show up wearing an invisible cloak and it will wave a magic wand and whisk us away when we least expect it.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me