Rachel

“A mathematical formula for happiness:Reality divided by Expectations.There were two ways to be happy:improve your reality or lower your expectations.”
― Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

“It felt like the world had divided into two different types of people, those who had felt pain and those who had yet to.”
― Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart

“Anyhow, there'll be plenty of jam in heaven, that's one comfort, he said complacently.

Perhaps there will...if we want it, she said, But what makes you think so?

Why, it's in the catechism, said Davy.

Oh, no, there is nothing like that in the catechism, Davy.

But I tell you there is, persisted Davy. It was in that question Marilla taught me last Sunday. Why should we love God? It says, Because he makes preserves, and redeems us. Preserves is just a holy way of saying jam.”
― L. M. Montgomery

“For the rest of my life there would be a splinter in my being, stinging from the moment my mother died until it was buried with me.”
― Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart