Maria Healey

“Letting someone you don’t really like surprise you is evolved,”
― Mary-Louise Parker, Dear Mr. You

“After I was caught returning at dawn from one such late-night escapade, my worried mother thoroughly interrogated me regarding every drug teenagers take, never suspecting that the most intoxicating thing I’d experienced, by far, was the volume of romantic poetry she’d handed me the previous week.”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

“Things evolve into other things. Emotions do the same. Forever. Your best ally in all of these shifting seas is your faith in the fact that you are exactly where you are supposed to be.”
― Sara Bareilles, Sounds Like Me: My Life (So Far) in Song

“Empathetic silence is one of the most underused weapons in the world.”
― Gillian Flynn, The Grownup