Lauren

“You know where I'm from," he said, and she understood what he meant by this. Once we lived on an island in the ocean. Once we took the ferry to go to high school, and at night the sky was brilliant in the absence of all these city lights. Once we paddled canoes to the lighthouse to look at petroglyphs and fished for salmon and walked through deep forests, but all of this was completely unremarkable because everyone else we knew did these things too, and here in these lives we've built for ourselves, here in these hard and glittering cities, none of this would seem real if it wasn't for you.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

“I did not always think he was right nor did he always think I was right but we were each the person the other trusted.”
― Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking

“Hell is the absence of the people you long for.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

“It was never meant to be permanent. You must have known the tide would come back in.”
― Anne Lamott, Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith