Marlene

“Lily’s thoughts on grief:
“Grief is a sea made of your own tears. Salty swells cover the dark depths you must swim at your own pace. It takes time to build stamina. Some days, my arms sliced through the water, and I felt things would be okay, the shore wasn’t so far off. Then one memory, one moment would nearly drown me, and I’d be back to the beginning, fighting to stay above the waves, exhausted, sinking in my own sorrow.”
― Janet Skeslien Charles, The Paris Library

“Luxury is infantilization.”
― Matthew Edward Hall

“No one is emotionally prepared to have their child predecease them. No one should ever have to experience it.”
― David Putnam, The Ruthless”
― David Putnam

“In my time, love often followed trends, yet greater love grows through it all.”
― Matthew Edward Hall, San Mateo: Proof of The Divine