Gem Crede

“Love is a house with an unshakable foundation and an indestructible roof.”
― Yann Martel, The High Mountains of Portugal

“Don’t you want to be alive before you die?”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“That's the nature of grief: It's a creature with many arms but few legs, and it staggers about, searching for support.”
― Yann Martel, The High Mountains of Portugal

“Love is a house with many rooms, this room to feed the love, this one to entertain it, this one to clean it, this one to dress it, this one to allow it to rest, and each of these rooms can also just as well be the room for laughing or the room for listening or the room for telling one’s secrets or the room for sulking or the room for apologizing or the room for intimate togetherness, and, of course, there are the rooms for the new members of the household. Love is a house in which plumbing brings bubbly new emotions every morning, and sewers flush out disputes, and bright windows open up to admit the fresh air of renewed goodwill. Love is a house with an unshakable foundation and an indestructible roof. He had a house like that once, until it was demolished.”
― Yann Martel, The High Mountains of Portugal