Aliza

“That was the year, my twenty-eighth, when I was discovering that not all of the promises would be kept, that some things are in fact irrevocable and that it had counted after all, every evasion and every procrastination, every mistake, every word, all of it.”
― Joan Didion

“Go then, there are other worlds than these.”
― Stephen King, The Gunslinger

“Those previous versions of herself were so distant now that remembering them was almost like remembering other people, acquaintances, young women whom she’d known a long time ago, and she felt such compassion for them. “I regret nothing,” she told her reflection in the ladies’ room mirror, and believed it.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

“Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five