Ellie

“I've got the love that's yours as long as you do what you're told, the love that worries it's not good enough, the love that worries that it'll be found out, the love that fears being judged and found lacking, the love that's almost - but not quite - strong enough, the love that makes you feel they're better than you”
― Andrew Kaufman, All My Friends are Superheroes

“I buried my face against his neck, breathing him in - the smell of machine oil, summertime, a thousand memories”
― L.A. Weatherly, Broken Sky

“People here aren't mean; they're not unsociable - it just hurts to get close to someone and then lose them”
― L.A. Weatherly, Broken Sky

“I don't know about the first steps in a geography of loss, and I know that it's unmapped. I know that we all have to go by ourselves.”
― Wayne Earl, This Star Won't Go Out: The Life and Words of Esther Grace Earl