Emily

“She would ask herself these questions: does this place make me feel positive? Can I be truly whole and uncompromisingly myself? Do I love and treasure myself here?”
― Hwang Bo-Reum, Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop

“We learn to grab joy and delight when we can. We learn that we don't control plotlines, even though we forget sometimes. We learn that every good thing takes time and work and patience. We learn to be suspicious of overnight success or magic solutions. We learn to ask for help, to ask for space, to ask for second chances. We learn how tough we are, and how beloved. We learn to keep going, because all the times we thought we couldn't take one more step, we did .What's the option? We kept going then, and we can keep going now. It isn't pretty, but if I've learned anything, it's that there's a lot more to life than pretty.”
― Shauna Niequist, I Guess I Haven't Learned That Yet: Discovering New Ways of Living When the Old Ways Stop Working

“If relationships are a puzzle, then theirs was solved from the get-go- as if someone shook out the box and watched from above as each separate piece landed exactly right, slipping into the other, fully interlocked, into a picture that made perfect sense.”
― Bonnie Garmus, Lessons in Chemistry

“that he and Mom weren’t like two magnets. They were like two colors. Once they were mixed together, there was no way of separating them.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends