Lauren

“We see what a punishing business it is, simply being alive.”
― Sarah Waters, The Little Stranger

“We are obligated to the people we care about and who we allow to care about us, whether we say we love them or not. Our main obligation is to be forthright—to elucidate the nature of our affection when such elucidation would be meaningful or clarifying.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

“There is no light without shadows, just as there is no happiness without pain.”
― Isabel Allende, Portrait in Sepia

“You will regret the small thing you didn’t say for the rest of your life.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar