Bianca Stolte

“Do you remember what you told me,” I say, “about your brain?”
His hand pauses.
“You said it felt like a Ferris wheel,” I say. “Like all your thoughts were constantly circling, and you’d reach out for one, but it was hard to stay on it for too long because they kept spinning.”
The lines of his face soften. His fingers curl, the backs of his nails pressing into my skin. “Except with you. You’re like gravity.”
I couldn’t have pulled myself away from him then if he’d burst into flames.
“Everything keeps spinning,” he says in a low, hoarse voice. “But my mind’s always got one hand on you.”
― Emily Henry, Happy Place

“Kristen was right. I’d chosen this life. And I’d had enough. I was going to make a concerted effort to get out of this in-between I was trapped in. I was going to actively pursue joy. I’d cook. I’d maybe start updating my blog again. I had too many paying commissions to be able to dedicate time to painting any of my own stuff, but maybe eventually I’d even get back to that too. And I was going to start now. Not for Jason. Not because he was here to reap the benefits. For myself. I should have done it a long time ago.”
― Abby Jimenez, The Happy Ever After Playlist

“Someone once told me, “As mothers, our job is not to raise children, but to raise adults.” I am confident your child will become a fine adult under your careful sculpting. And at some time or another, take a moment to imagine a world where, instead of teaching our children to be strong, we teach them to be gentle.”
― Lori Nelson Spielman, The Life List

“I think, sometimes, we are simply afraid to need. We’re afraid that if we ask too much, if we bare our tenderest wounds and show our ugliest sides, we’ll find out that we aren’t lovable. That we can only keep the ones we love around us as long as we cost them nothing, create no burden.”
― Emily Henry, Happy Place