Shirley

“How much beauty you've missed. Because it really is beautiful: this future you prayed we would never get the chance to see. I think you'd like it if you gave it a chance. But that's something I've learned in the years since I left the ranch: you cannot change people who refuse to be changed”
― Caro Claire Burke, Yesteryear

“Nothing cut deeper than loss, but finding what you lost hurt too. You couldn’t hold it without grieving for all the years your arms were empty.”
― Samantha Sotto Yambao, The Elsewhere Express

“Nothing hurts as bad as hope being met with reality.”
― Jennette McCurdy, Half His Age

“Maybe it’s me. Maybe I’m the problem. My mom called me hard to love when I was seven and the phrase always stuck with me even though she swore she didn’t mean it twenty minutes later”
― Jennette McCurdy, Half His Age