Summer Shaffer

“What had happened between us had made me so raw, so very, very hungry for love and affection—someone to call my own—that I think I latched on to the first person who offered and clung to it with all my might, trying to heal my wounds.”
― Camilla Bruce, The Witch in the Well

“I don’t think there’s a right way to feel,” I say. “And you can’t control it, anyway. Feelings are like weather. They just happen, and then they pass.”
― Emily Henry, Funny Story

“The same universe that dispassionately takes things away can bring you things you weren’t imaginative enough to dream up.”
― Emily Henry, Funny Story

“People think that we’re defined by the big moments in our lives: births, deaths, successes, and failures. But I think the little moments matter more because those are the moments that shape your self-perception and who you want to become.”
― Daniel G. Miller, The Orphanage by the Lake