Rebecca

“I didn't get to stop missing her. Ever. It was the thing that my life had handed me, and no matter how heavy it was, I was never going to be able to set it down. But that didn't mean I wasn't going to be okay. Or even happy. I couldn't imagine it yet exactly, but maybe a day would come when the hole inside me wouldn't ache quite so badly and I could think about her, and remember, and it would be all right. That day felt light-years away, but right at this moment I was standing on a tower in the middle of Tuscany and the sunrise was so beautiful that it hurt.

And that was something.”
― Jenna Evans Welch, Love & Gelato

“Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.”
― Jenna Evans Welch, Love & Gelato

“Do moons choose the planets they orbit? Do planets choose their stars? Who am I to deny gravity, Aurora? When you shine brighter than an constellation in the sky?”
― Amie Kaufman, Aurora Rising

“Empathy. Carlin always said it was the great value of fiction, to put us inside the minds of strangers. Lazarus,”
― Erika Johansen, The Fate of the Tearling