Alysha

“Do not choose to abandon love because you are afraid that it will crush you. Love is the only true constant in a fragile world.”
― Susan Meissner, A Fall of Marigolds

“then surely there is an adversary. There is something opposed to you. Something that desires to defeat you. You want to believe your enemy is the disease. You don’t want to believe even for a minute that the enemy is your own body, this weak tent of flesh that cannot stand up against a speck of contagion, this fragile weave of muscle, bone, and soul that also cannot resist the power of flame nor the pull of the ground”
― Susan Meissner, A Fall of Marigolds

“Love is the only true constant in a fragile world.”
― Susan Meissner, A Fall of Marigolds

“You know, I sometimes think that the most effective people in the world are introverts who taught themselves how to be extroverts.”
― Meg Wolitzer, The Female Persuasion