Rachel

“Solitude is different from loneliness, and it doesn't have to be a lonely kind of thing.”
― Fred Rogers, The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember

“I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind's door at 4 a.m. of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends. We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. We forget the loves and the betrayals alike, forget what we whispered and what we screamed, forget who we were.”
― Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem

“It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.”
― Anne Carson, Plainwater: Essays and Poetry

“Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.”
― Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse