Lee-Ann

“Perhaps our whole lives were just a series of letting go - of certain values and beliefs, of people and memories. We let go of certain things, quietly or with a thud, in the hope of reaching greater, better ones, while the rest wilts away.”
― Cecile Pin, Celestial Lights

“All stories are love stories if you love stories.”
― Meg Shaffer, The Book Witch

“They were going to lose parts of themselves that they had thought were irreplaceable, only to find that they didn't miss them at all. There was no other option, nothing else to do. Because staying young forever wasn't just impossible - it was exhausting. No one was meant to shoulder that amount of possibility for very long.”
― Grant Ginder, So Old, So Young

“He had said something like, "why don't people ever say anything real?" And now he knew why. Because to say anything real was to say things that nobody wanted to know. Or if they wanted to know, they would not care in the right way. Or even understand. It was a private thing to be alive. He understood this now.”
― Elizabeth Strout, The Things We Never Say