Jillian

“Hollowness: that I understand. I'm starting to believe that there isn't anything you can do to fix it. That's what I've taken from the therapy sessions: the holes in your life are permanent. You have to grow around them, like tree roots around concrete; you mold yourself through the gaps”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

“There wasn't any limit, no boundary at all, to the future. And it would be so a man wouldn't have room to store his happiness.”
― John Steinbeck

“I do my best thinking at night when everyone else is sleeping. No interruptions. No noise. I like the feeling of being awake when no one else is.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“We write in response to what we read and learn; and in the end we write out of our deepest selves.”
― Andrea Barrett