Melissa P.

“After losing a parent, I can tell you that the ache never heals. It changes with time, but I carry that loss, that lingering grief with me.”
― Ellie Alexander, Donut Disturb

“Your new life is going to cost you your old one.
It’s going to cost you your comfort zone and your sense
of direction.
It’s going to cost you relationships and friends.
It’s going to cost you being liked and understood.
It doesn’t matter.
The people who are meant for you are going to meet you
on the other side. You’re going to build a new comfort
zone around the things that actually move you forward.
Instead of being liked, you’re going to be loved. Instead of
being understood, you’re going to be seen.
All you’re going to lose is what was built for a person you
no longer are.”
― Brianna Wiest, The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery

“Lately, I was starting to realize that one of the reasons I’d blocked the possibility of love was that it was too painful to imagine losing someone I cared about again. But where did that leave me? Alone.”
― Ellie Alexander, The Body in the Bookstore

“Books had gotten me through my worst days.”
― Ellie Alexander, The Body in the Bookstore