Nicole

“Yes. I am. I’m sorry, Evan; please forgive me. But we’re both to blame for…’ She stops herself short, doesn’t want to sound like she’s trying to make him responsible for her actions. She knows she’ll just have to wear it. ‘I know I shouldn’t have done this; I know it was wrong, but I don’t want to live a lie, and I don’t want you to, either. You deserve honesty; we both deserve to be happy – everyone does, don’t they?”
― Anna-Lou Weatherley, The Stranger's Wife

“He started to cry, and in that moment, I left my body for a second and just saw the scene. Nick in tears, and this girl keeping a poker face like a hostage eyeing the door. Jessica, you should cry, I told myself. I thought it would make him feel better. I couldn’t. I’d been living with sadness so long that I was used to the feeling. “Please”
― Jessica Simpson, Open Book

“But that’s not how it actually is—the people you lose live in your mind, your heart, your very being, in a way that is constant. Talking about them feels good—even if it might also bring tears—because it’s a way of bringing them to life again, of indulging in memories. There is no getting over it. There is only learning to live with it.”
― Brie Bella, Incomparable

“See that one?” Ethan says, pointing at a strip of stars that may or may not be a constellation. “That’s Cassiopeia, and that one is Orion, and that one’s Steve.”
― Allison Larkin, The People We Keep