Maryam

“There is something comforting about a stone marked, presumably for eternity, with the name of your loved one. I”
― Irvin D. Yalom, A Matter of Death and Life

“Sometimes regrets aren't based on fact at all”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“These are human being to human being: not so much therapist-client moments, and these moments have made a huge difference to me (and to my own clients). It is very heartening to know that even when we get it wrong (i.e., being human) we can make it right with authenticity and kindness.”
― Irvin Yalom, A Matter of Death and Life: Love, Loss and What Matters in the End

“When you stay too long in a place, you forget just how big an expanse the world is. You get no sense of the length of those longitudes and latitudes. Just as, she supposed, it is hard to have a sense of the vastness inside any one person. But once you sense that vastness, once something reveals it, hope emerges, whether you want it to or not, and it clings to you as stubbornly as lichen clings to rock.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library