Dori

“It broke my heart into more pieces than my heart was made of, why can't people say what they mean at the time?”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“You remind me of everything that followed.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

“You are like a shell,” he said. “A seashell. Hollow but beautiful.”
“Hollow.” She nodded.
For the rest of the day, they sat not far from each other, gazing out the window at the light shifting almost imperceptibly. They sat about and let themselves be objects on which dust might settle, air might past, light could play.
“I am just an emptiness,” she said.
“No,” he told her. “You are a resting place.”
― Ramona Ausubel

“Yet even in the loneliness of the canyon I knew there were others like me who had brothers they did not understand but wanted to help. We are probably those referred to as "our brother's keepers," possessed of one of the oldest and possible one of the most futile and certainly one of the most haunting instincts. It will not let us go.”
― Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It and Other Stories