Alyssa P

“I accept it, and warmth spreads up my fingertips and through my body. A small part of me perks up, smiles. And I'm not sure the smiles reaches my face, but maybe this is how healing starts - small bits of happiness waking up inside you, until maybe one day it spreads through your whole self" -Lily”
― Tae Keller, When You Trap a Tiger

“Sometimes, no matter how much you want people to stay, you have to let them go.”
― Tae Keller, When You Trap a Tiger

“So they turned towards the hills, which were blue and purple in the setting sun--a shepherd did he but know it, lives in halls more splendid than a king's....”
― Charles Boardman Hawes, The Dark Frigate

“Mess is an unnecessary source of irritation.”
― Margareta Magnusson, The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning