Hannah

“I’ve noticed that about people who had stable childhoods. They like to create their own problems.”
― Lily King, Heart the Lover

“think we desire unity because we have felt it before and we want to feel it again. It’s our natural state.’ ‘Eternity as a concept is a bit terrifying,’ he says. ‘Only if time exists as we experience it. Which we know it does not. Without time, eternity loses its bite.”
― Lily King, Heart the Lover

“As soon as his voice is gone I have that feeling I often have when I’m away from my family, like they are moving farther and farther away from me, beginning to flicker faintly as distant stars and I will never ever reach them again. It feels like a premonition of the fact that someday, one by one, we will be separated from each other forever.”
― Lily King, Heart the Lover

“You know how you can remember exactly when and where you read certain books? A great novel, a truly great one, not only captures a particular fictional experience, it alters and intensifies the way you experience your own life while you’re reading it. And it preserves it, like a time capsule.”
― Lily King, Heart the Lover