☆ Katie ☆

“Sometimes a marriage runs its course, and because we want to believe so desperately that love is infallible, we seek a single point of failure, as if we can create a map of all the land mines to avoid. A marriage merely survives if it steps gingerly forward and avoids explosives. It thrives when you love with abandon, understanding that the potential pain you might endure is no greater or less based on whether you shielded your heart or exposed it completely.”
― William Dameron, The Way Life Should Be

“Living organisms have adapted to life in a turbulent world. Wings, fins, skin, scales, the shapes of bodies and cells, these are all giveaway signs of adaptation to turbulence. Amid chaos, life finds a way.”
― Janie Kim, We Carry the Sea in Our Hands

“She wiggles and squirms and shifts, and fear hums beside me as I begin to understand that keeping a child is like keeping the sky— always with me but never mine.”
― Sarah Damoff, The Bright Years

“People always say not to forget because then history will repeat itself. But maybe history will repeat itself anyway, and forgetting is how we bear it.”
― Sarah Damoff, The Bright Years