Lenore Kosinski

“Crying never brought anything back from the dead. It only felt like the ocean trying to drown you from the inside out.”
― Sarah Ockler, The Summer of Chasing Mermaids

“It's beautiful."
"Yeah, it is."
"That's beautiful, too."
"What's beautiful?"
"The way you stare at me when you think I'm not looking.”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, The Fire Between High & Lo

“I used to wonder how one knew they were falling in love. What were the signs? The clues? Did it take time or was it one full sweep? Did a person wake one morning, drink their coffee, and then stare at the person sitting across from them and surrender completely to the free fall? But now I knew. A person didn’t fall in love. They dissolved into it. One day you were ice, the next day, a puddle.”
― Brittainy C. Cherry

“Because at the end of the day, we’re all lost. We’re all cracked. We’re all scarred. We’re all broken. We’re all just trying to figure out this thing called life, you know? Sometimes it feels so lonely, but then you remember your core tribe. The people who sometimes hate you, but never stop loving you. The people who always show up, no matter how many times you’ve fucked up and pushed them away. That’s your tribe. These people, these struggles, this is my tribe. So yeah, we fall apart, but we’ll fall together. We’ll stand up—together. Then, at the end of all the bullshit, all of the tears, all of the hurt, we’ll take a few steps at a time. Then we’ll take a few deep breaths, and we’ll walk each other home.”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, The Fire Between High & Lo