Rachel

“Some friendships ended all at once and some were like Athenian ships, each part slowly replaced over the years until one day, even if you had never left the deck, you couldn’t recognize it anymore. Lately when I talked to Noe I felt like one of the old people who came to the ice-cream shop year after year, even though the soul of the place had long ago drained out of it: they knew it wasn’t the same anymore, but they simply didn’t know where else to go.”
― Hilary T. Smith, A Sense of the Infinite

“It was no small thing to turn to another human and say, ‘I want to know you,’ with the implied opposite, ‘I want you to know me’.”
― Hilary T. Smith, A Sense of the Infinite

“I couldn’t tell if it was better to be a person who held on or a person who let go. Maybe it was less about better and worse, and more about which thing you needed to do in order for your plant to grow.”
― Hilary T. Smith, A Sense of the Infinite

“You might think the world is complicated and full of lost souls, that people who've touched your life and disappeared will never be found, but in the end all of that can change.”
― Marjan Kamali, The Stationery Shop