Sam Stephen

“Remember when we used to share our secrets?" he asked. The moon captured a handsome face, full of longing. His dark hair brushed his shoulders.
"The Stone," she laughed.
"I loved you then. I loved you no matter where you came from. No - scratch that." His voice floated up to her. "I loved you because you came from wherever it was. It must have been a magic place, to produce you.”
― Rene Denfeld, The Child Finder

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

“But I didn't put it back on after the Porters. It isn't a crisis of faith. I'm not sure I ever had faith, not the way Mom does. Mine is more like Dad's - I believe there is a God, and I believe in honoring Him, but I'm not sure how much of a role He plays in our lives, and I don't blame Him for that, because it's up to us, isn't it? It's up to us to say we'll be a good person because that's what we believe is right, not because it'll earn us a better place in the next life.”
― Kelley Armstrong, The Masked Truth

“We don't remember what we want to remember. We remember what we can't forget.”
― Lisa Taddeo, Three Women