Alissa

“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”
― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

“Living people wait and see because they fool themselves that they have time. Dead people see and wait.”
― Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings

“You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

“But when someone’s gone and you’re the primary keeper of his memory—letting go would be a kind of murder, wouldn’t it? I had so much love for him, even if it was a complicated love, and where is all that love supposed to go? He was gone, so it couldn’t change, it couldn’t turn to indifference. I was stuck with all that love.”
― Rebecca Makkai, The Great Believers