Miriam

“The monster showed up just after midnight. As they do.”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

“It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end… because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it’s only a passing thing… this shadow. Even darkness must pass.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
― James Baldwin

“When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?”
― Virginia Woolf