Britney Coyle

“There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness…”
― Matt Haig, The Life Impossible

“And if you don’t know the story, you don’t know the man.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

“Ultimately, meaning comes through finding a way to sustain your love for the person after their death while you’re moving forward with your life.”
― David Kessler, Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage of Grief

“Sitting on the sand, I allowed myself a quiet chuckle over how ridiculously unlikely my life had become. Or maybe it had always been unlikely. Maybe that’s the truly ridiculous thing, the way we don’t even blink at the sheer improbability of our lives here on this rock spinning through space. The way we exist out of nothing, the way the whole universe exists out of nothing, and here we are, the impossible something that made existence out of the void. Impossible life. A fluke to be cherished. The Goat Incident I was sitting quite close to one of the restaurants, and pretty soon I was distracted by the various conversations of the diners, a babbling brook of different languages foaming into each other.”
― Matt Haig, The Life Impossible