Nina

“What I am mourning is perhaps not worth saving, but I regret its loss nevertheless.”
― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America

“Every good enough mother teaches her child that no matter how bad it seems- no matter how many rejections or scraped knees or broken bones there are- it is going to be okay. Maybe not the way we wanted or hoped it would be, but still okay. A good parent returns a child to the place where she can trust that although she might be bitter or hateful for a moment, it's not the end of the world. There is love here. There is light and quiet here. There is peace.”
― Geneen Roth, This Messy Magnificent Life: A Field Guide

“Are you enviable? How can you make yourself enviable?”
― Harry Beckwith, You, Inc.: The Art of Selling Yourself

“To lose someone you love is to alter your life for ever. You don't get over it because 'it' is the person you loved. The pain stops, there are new people, but the gap never closes. How could it? The particularness of someone who mattered enough to grieve over is not made anodyne by death.
I've thought a lot about death recently, the finality of it, the argument ending in mid-air. One of us hadn't finished, why did the other one go? And why without warning? Even death after long illness is without warning. The moment you had prepared for so carefully took you by storm.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body