Alyce

“Art is what we leave of ourselves in other people.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

“Because it’s been a painfully short life, the blink of an eye, a single summer’s day. Ted’s chest hurts, like crying without oxygen, because grief does so many strange things to people, and one of those things is that we forget how to breathe. As if the body’s first instinct is to grieve itself to death. Soon Ted will stand up and discover that he’s forgotten how to walk too, that happens to us all when the love of our life falls asleep for the last time, because when the soul leaves the body, evidently the last thing it does is tie our shoelaces together. In the weeks following the death we trip over thin air. It’s the soul’s fault.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

“The world is full of miracles, but none greater than how far a young person can be carried by someone else’s belief in them.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

“I can tell you it’s profoundly difficult to both reckon with the past and live in the present at the same time. And it wasn’t fair to my children that their mother had to heal and put herself back together in the same time span that they grew up.”
― Tia Levings, A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy