Travis Hatch

“The dead can always hear us, my love. Why else do you think we sing? We want them to know that even though they are gone, we can still find joy.”
― Pierce Brown

“You have never known fear until you have a child, and maybe that is what tricks us into thinking that it is more magnificent, because the fear itself is more magnificent. Every day, your first thought is not “I love him” but “How is he?” The world, overnight, rearranges itself into an obstacle course of terrors. I would hold him in my arms and wait to cross the street and would think how absurd it was that my child, that any child, could expect to survive this life. It seemed as improbable as the survival of one of those late-spring butterflies—you know, those little white ones—I sometimes saw wobbling through the air, always just millimeters away from smacking itself against a windshield.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“Smokers do not smoke because they enjoy it. They do it because they are miserable without it.”
― Allen Carr, Easy Way to Stop Smoking

“And isn’t death just the apocalypse in the first person?”
― Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You