Meggan Benoit

“So... how real or substantial is an image if everything it earns someone can all go away in two weeks?”
― Tessa Bailey, It Happened One Summer

“Stop what, Piper? Thinking about you every second of the day? Missing you so much I climb the fucking walls? Stop being hungry for you? I can't turn any of that off and I don't want to.”
― Tessa Bailey, It Happened One Summer

“Dad?"
"I'm here, baby. I'm here.
"Daddy," I whisper.
Cracks splinter through the ice behind my ribs. The words, buried for so long, burst out, sending aching waves ripping through me as I let them fly free.
"I need help.”
― Erin Stewart

“He had stopped checking her side of the bed in the middle of the night. Stopped wondering if she was already up. He didn't call her name. He didn't check his watch, wondering if it was time for her meds or a walk or some breathing exercises. He didn't accidentally reach for two plates at dinnertime, whenever that was, and when he realized he didn't, he deliberately set out two plates, because the acceptance of her absence was worse than the forgetting of her death.”
― Kristan Higgins, Pack Up the Moon