Shelly

“Millions of characters, each with their own epic narratives singing it’s hard to be an angel until you’ve been a demon.”
― Kate Tempest, Brand New Ancients: A Poem

“In the end, all you want is someone to long for you when it comes time to put you in the ground.”
― Tea Obreht, The Tiger's Wife

“Whether or not [a] story has a happy ending depends, of course, on who is reading it. Whether you are a wolf or a girl. A girl or a monster or both. Not everyone in a story gets a happy ending. Not everyone who reads a story feels the same way about how it ends. And if you go back to the beginning and read it again, you may discover it isn't the same story you thought you'd read. Stories shift their shape.”
― Kelly Link

“It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.”
― John Updike, My Father's Tears and Other Stories