Hannah

“Do not let those who cannot see the truth tell you who you are. You are the flame that cannot be put out. You are the star that cannot be lost. You are who you have always been, and that is enough and more than enough. Anyone who looks at you and sees darkness is blind.”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Gold

“Yet on each occasion these pleas for his presence served to reinforce my awareness of the final silence that separated us.”
― Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking

“I loved my father when I was a child," said Will. "I thought he was the best man I'd ever known. Then when I discovered he had squandered all our money at the gaming tables, I thought he was the worst man I'd ever known. Now that I am myself a father, I know that he was simply a man.”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Gold

“People who have recently lose someone have a certain look, recognizable maybe only to those who have that look on their own faces. I have noticed it on my face and I notice it now on others. The look is one of extreme vulnerability, nakedness, openness. It is the look of someone who walks from the ophthalmologist's office into the bright daylight with dilated eyes, or of someone who wears glasses and is suddenly made to take the off. These people who have lost someone look naked because they think themselves invisible. I myself felt invisible for a period of time, incorporeal.”
― Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking