Ernest Miller

“With each new day, another piece of my past resurfaces, painfully reminding me of what's missing. Life can feel like an endless procession of losses, from start to finish. Your absence cuts through me like a knife, erasing the memory of the once-familiar contours of your face, leaving behind only the ache of your departure.”
― Rolf van der Wind

“Nonstalgia (noun): 1. The unsettling sensation that you will never be able to fully access the past; that once you are departed from an event, some essential quality of it is lost forever. 2. A reminder to remember: just because the sharpness of the sadness has faded does not mean that it was not, once, terrible. It means only time and space, creature of infinite girth and tenderness, have stepped between the two of you, and they are keeping you safe as they were once unable to.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

“It’s better to die than to be dead while still alive.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“In your arms, I found my first home,
A world of love, where dreams have grown._
Your strength, your care, your endless light, Turned my darkest days so bright!
Happy Mother's Day, to a heart so true,
The world is kinder because of you.”
― Srinivas Mishra