Malaha

“Their family had always been good at hellos and goodbyes, moments ending even as they began. It was easy to love someone in the beginnings and endings; it was all the time in between that was so hard.”
― Coco Mellors, Blue Sisters

“I thought about the books that I had looked through in the bookstore. It occurred to me that they were full of things that people wanted to say to other people, or things people wanted somebody to say to them.”
― Mieko Kawakami, All the Lovers in the Night

“The rage dissipates along with the love, and all we’re left with is a story.”
― Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

“we remember the people we hurt so much more clearly than the people who hurt us.”
― Ann Patchett, Tom Lake