Rash J

“I really want to keep kissing you, but…” Kennedy took a small step back and held the ring up. “Can I put this on you? I’m very excited and also very nervous. I’ve never done this before and I never want to do it again, so I have no idea if I’m doing it right.”
― Monica McCallan, When I'm With You

“People say that love is rare. I am not so sure. What is rare is something even more desirable. Understanding. There is no point in being loved if you are not understood. They are simply loving an idea of you they have in their mind. They are in love with love. They are in love with their loving. To be understood. And not only that, but to be understood and appreciated once understood. That is what matters.”
― Matt Haig, The Life Impossible

“If I look back at everything, my whole life, I can just lose it. Try, fail, try, fail, good, bad, fail. I get really overwhelmed and start crying, looking at how fucked up my life has been. Sometimes it feels like there’s nothing left, no purpose. Like there’s nothing I want to accomplish anymore. No goal, no anything. Zero. I have three remaining children, so I fight it, I fight it, I fight it, I fight it, I fight it. But it’s fucking there, alive and well. It’s a lion’s roar and I have to shut it down, shut it up. I’m surprised I’m still alive. I can’t believe I’m still standing. It feels wrong to be alive without Ben.”
― Riley Keough, From Here to the Great Unknown

“There’s an old saying about stories, and how there are always three versions of them: yours, mine, and the truth.”
― Emily Henry, Great Big Beautiful Life