Gracia

“You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Falling in
love is really quite simple,” she says. “You want to know the secret?
It’s the same thing we are all doing about life every single day.”

I look to her.

“Forget there’s an ending.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Carrie Soto Is Back

“Sometimes I worry I’ll never find a place to call home.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Maybe in Another Life

“There is nothing scarier than the idea of leaving what is good for the hope of what may be exceptional. What you do not realize, at that moment, is that you have already decided. The path forward is now about becoming comfortable with that choice, through all the mental gymnastics, justifications, explanations, and processing that it may bring. In the end, you already know. You are not finding your answers. You are finding your courage.”
― Brianna Wiest, The Pivot Year