Kerry

“Her grief was a forest with no trails, and she couldn’t guess how long her heart would walk through it, as her body walked other places.”
― J. Ryan Stradal, The Lager Queen of Minnesota

“Her mother told her once that the nicest thing you can do for someone is be happy to see them,”
― J. Ryan Stradal, The Lager Queen of Minnesota

“We love and care for oodles of people, but only a few of them, if they died, would make us believe we could not continue to live. Imagine if there were a boat upon which you could put only four people, and everyone else known and beloved to you would then cease to exist. Who would you put on that boat? It would be painful, but how quickly you would decide: You and you and you and you, get in. The rest of you, goodbye.”
― Cheryl Strayed

“BITTER: always a bit unanticipated. Coffee, chocolate, rosemary, citrus rinds, wine. Once, when we were wild, it told us about poison. The mouth still hesitates at each new encounter. We urge it forward, say, Adapt. Now, enjoy it.”
― Stephanie Danler, Sweetbitter