Carla C.

“we remember the people we hurt so much more clearly than the people who hurt us.”
― Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

“Resist change at your own peril, Vivian. When something ends, let it end.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, City of Girls

“The number of things I’d failed to grasp back then was as limitless as the stars in the night sky.”
― Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

“Oh, I may not know much about living my own life, but I'm smart for others. And I know the heart is a burial ground for memories that shame and hurt.
You can visit and place flowers there and make it a tomb. Or let those things act as fertilizer and pay no homage. p. 351”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, Family Lore