Gina Schmidt

“I think there’s always a reason for love, but sometimes hate just is. A kind of free-floating evil.”
― Stephen King, Fairy Tale

“It’s the incomprehensibility of death that drives people mad, so that we forget how to breathe and how to walk, until we spend whole nights stumbling about in dark rooms, calling and calling, trying to understand how there can be a phone number that no longer belongs to anyone.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

“Grief was something that moved in and stayed. Maybe it moved from one side of the room to the other, farther away from the window, but it was always there.”
― Emma Straub, This Time Tomorrow

“all her life, she’d thought of death as the single moment, the heart stopping, the final breath, but now she knew that it could be much more like giving birth, with nine months of preparation. Her father was heavily pregnant with death, and there was little to do but wait”
― Emma Straub, This Time Tomorrow