Youmna

“Time is a treacherous mistress. In our youth it flows slow and deep; the days stretch out endlessly. When we are children, a summer lasts for a century. As we age, the flow of time speeds up. Suddenly, a year vanishes with the snap of one’s fingers. How quickly time eludes us, how easily it tricks us.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Bewitching

“Well, if that's suffering, he thinks, let me suffer. Yes. To love whoever I have left. And if ever I lose someone, let me descend into a futile and prolonged rage, yes, despair, wanting to break things, furniture, appliances, wanting to get into fights, to scream, to walk in front of a bus, yes. Let me suffer, please. To love just these few people, to know myself capable of that, I would suffer every day of my life.”
― Sally Rooney, Intermezzo

“Grief never ends, but we find a way to walk in the light someone has left behind, rather than living in pain's shadow.”
― Caleb Azumah Nelson, Small Worlds

“I dream
of the big dumb heart my mother
hands me. She tells me to carry it.
I drop it every time.”
― Noor Hindi, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.