Rachel

“Friendships between women, as any woman will tell you, are built of a thousand small kindnesses... swapped back and forth and over again.”
― Michelle Obama, Becoming

“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

“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

“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