Ceridwen

“There are two kinds of people in this world: those who live with shame, and those who die from it. Could there be a third kind of person? she wondered. One who overcomes the shame?”
― Victor LaValle, Lone Women

“For you, a thousand times over”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“I'll never know, and neither will you, of the life you don't choose. We'll only know that whatever that sister life was, it was important and beautiful and not ours. It was the ghost ship that didn't carry us. There's nothing to do but salute it from the shore.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

“When the earth is cracking behind your feet and it feels like the whole world is going to swallow you up, you put one foot in front of the other and you keep going. You go forward. And do you know what happens if you don’t? No. Ha! Neither do I, angel. Neither do I.”
― Bess Kalb, Nobody Will Tell You This But Me: A True (As Told to Me) Story