Elle

“You're dead, and I'm the worst kind of alive.”
― Adam Silvera, History Is All You Left Me

“If you want to help her, you need to help yourself first. No one serves their friends by grinding themselves into dust on the altar of compassion.”
― Seanan McGuire, In an Absent Dream

“The boxes that are supposed to help us understand one another ultimately wedge us further apart. Even worse is that we rage against the artificial divisions the boxes create, claim that we’re more complex and complicated than how we’re defined by others, and then turn around and stuff the next person we meet into one and tape the lid shut. And then, as if the indignity of life isn’t enough, when a person dies, we cram what’s left of them into one final box for eternity.”
― Shaun David Hutchinson, The Past and Other Things That Should Stay Buried

“...stories can make someone immortal as long as someone else is willing to listen.”
― Adam Silvera, They Both Die at the End