Michaela

“Fathers throw the longer shadows. We get over the mothers, at last, but hardly ever the fathers, she said.”
― Kevin Barry, Night Boat to Tangier

“The fear of turning into our parents, she said, is what turns us into our fucking parents.”
― Kevin Barry, Night Boat to Tangier

“There’s no harder person on the planet than a romantic with a broken heart.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

“The earth, from here, is like heaven. It flows with colour. A burst of hopeful colour. When we’re on that planet we look up and think heaven is elsewhere, but here is what the astronauts and cosmonauts sometimes think: maybe all of us born to it have already died and are in an afterlife. If we must go to an improbable, hard-to-believe-in place when we die, that glassy, distant orb with its beautiful lonely light shows could well be it.”
― Samantha Harvey, Orbital