Rachel

“You don't love people," he said. "You love what they do to you.”
― Claire Vaye Watkins, Battleborn

“Anh Minh believed that if he could save three minutes here, five minutes there, then one day he could tally them all up and have enough to start life all over again.”
― Monique Truong, The Book of Salt

“I can remember a time when I took Henry James's advice--'try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!'--deeply to heart. I think I was then imagining that the net effect of becoming one of those people would be one of accretion. Whereas if you truly become someone on whom nothing is lost, then loss will not be lost upon you, either.”
― Maggie Nelson, Bluets

“How loose the silk. How jailed down the juice.”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved