Helen

“I can’t lose the thing I’ve held onto for so long, you know?” My face twists up from the pain of pushing it out. “I just really need it to be a love story, you know? I really, really need it to be that.”
“I know,” she says.
“Because if it isn’t a love story, then what is it”? I look to her glassy eyes, her face of wide open empathy. “It’s my life,” I say. “This has been my whole life.”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

“You are much braver than you think.”
― Bree Paulsen, Garlic and the Vampire

“I told myself that I was going to live the rest of my life as if it were Saturday.”
― Chip Gaines, The Magnolia Story

“you
are your own
soul mate”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey