Emily

“Maybe, in the end, that’s all that love was—doing the hard thing. Not roses and valentines and walks on the beach, but simply being present, day after ordinary day. The extraordinary romanticism of ordinary life.”
― Thrity Umrigar, Honor

“Turned out, we were all so close to criminal. All you needed was a good enough motive.”
― Megan Miranda, Such a Quiet Place

“I suppose that is one of the purposes of all reading. It helps you live lives beyond the one you are inside. It turns our single-room mental shack into a mansion.”
― Matt Haig, The Life Impossible

“And nor is mental health something we can clear up once and for all, but rather something we always have to attend to, like a garden that needs nurturing, for as long as we live.”
― Matt Haig, The Comfort Book