Samara

“It was as if June had given her a box—as if every parent gives their children a box—full of the things they carried. June had given her children this box packed to the brim with her own experiences, her own treasures and heartbreaks. Her own guilts and pleasures, triumphs and losses, values and biases, duties and sorrows. And Nina had been carrying around this box her whole life, feeling the full weight of it. But it was not, Nina saw just then, her job to carry the full box. Her job was to sort through the box. To decide what to keep, and to put the rest down. She had to choose what, of the things she inherited from the people who came before her, she wanted to bring forward. And what, of the past, she wanted to leave behind.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Malibu Rising

“Crying means you're feeling," Jan muses. That you're living. That you're loving".

That you're laughing.”
― Kirsty Greenwood, The Love of My Afterlife

“Because life is too short to wait around on a good idea.”
― Kirsty Greenwood, The Love of My Afterlife

“The thing about people is you have to let hem drag you to places you don't want to go. Let them tell you things you don't want to hear. Let them break you and put you back together.”
― Kirsty Greenwood, The Love of My Afterlife