Kristi

“She was thinking about the way she’d always taken for granted that the world had certain people in it, either central to her days or unseen and infrequently thought of. How without any one of these people the world is a subtly but unmistakably altered place, the dial turned just one or two degrees.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

“For every ten who worship you, one wants to see you burn. Those are simply the odds when it comes to people like us.”
― V.E. Schwab, A Gathering of Shadows

“So, if you are too tired to speak, sit next to me for I, too, am fluent in silence.”
― R. Arnold

“It is a great disadvantage to spend one’s time worrying about what may go wrong. When things do go wrong, one would think that worry would’ve prepared one in some way. This is not the case. Instead, the senseless disorder of one’s thoughts grows more and more uncontrollable as one rehearses the events that befell, to no good effect since nothing can undo the damage, no amount of muddled thinking can ever result in any other outcome.”
― Caroline Stevermer, The Grand Tour