Ruth

“You learn to live with it, with them. Because they do stay with you, even if they’re not living, breathing people any more.
It’s not the same crushing grief you felt at first, the kind that swamps you, and makes you want to cry in the wrong places, and get irrationally angry with all the idiots who are still alive when the person you love is dead.
It’s just something you learn to accommodate.
Like adapting around a hole. I don’t know. It’s like you become … a doughnut instead of a bun”
― Jojo Moyes, After You

“He’s looking at me in that way of his that should be illegal or patented, and it’s affecting my ability to remember things like my name and species and all the reasons a girl might go on a boy strike.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“I turn around, remembering again that we got made together, cell for cell. We were keeping each other company when we didn't have any eyes or hands. Before our soul even got delivered.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“Then he bestows the final commandment onto me: Thou shalt remake the world. This is something I would very much like to do, though no clue how carving a rock will achieve it.
- Jude Sweetwine”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun