Taryn

“I remember damage. Then escape. Then adrift in a stranger's galaxy for a long, long time. But I'm safe now.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

“Just listen to these people. You'd swear they understood each other though not one of them has any idea what their words actually mean to another.”
― André Alexis, Fifteen Dogs

“The way to turn an ex-lover into a friend is to never stop loving them, to know that when one phase of a relationship ends it can transform into something else. It is to acknowledge that love is both a constant and a variable at the same time.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“Remembering the past is like watching a Hollywood movie, in that you never see the characters go to the toilet.”
― Steve Toltz, Quicksand