Michelle

“Some people aren’t designed to be nurturers.”
― Claire Alexander, Meredith, Alone

“stare at her face, trying to find a tiny piece of love.”
― Claire Alexander, Meredith, Alone

“You don't let go once. That's your first mistake. You say goodbye over a lifetime. You might not have thought about her for ten years, then you'll hear a song or you'll walk past somewhere you once went together - something will come to the surface that you'd totally forgotten about. And you say another goodbye. You have to be prepared to let go and let go and let go a thousand times.”
― Dolly Alderton, Good Material

“I am not a grieving mother. I am the mother who will live, every single day, for the rest of my life, with the pain of losing Vincent and James, and with the memory of bringing them up.”
― Yiyun Li, Things in Nature Merely Grow