Kerin

“When we get over something, we move on, we put it behind us. Do we leave the dead behind or do we take them with us? I think we take them with us. They accompany us. They remain with us, if in another form. We have to learn to live with them and their deaths.”
― Jan-Philipp Sendker, The Art of Hearing Heartbeats

“Years later I applied for Oxford University, and I suppose you could say that in this way I escaped from my parents. Being their sole child had become too complicated.”
― Rachel Joyce, The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy

“I witness the ones who are left behind, crumbling among the jigsaw puzzle of realization, despair, and surprise. They have punctured hearts. They have beaten lungs.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief