Alyssa

“We won't grow old together, Cyrus. But can't you feel this mattering? Right now?”
― Kaveh Akbar, Martyr!

“your body is the place where the Divine dwells, then you always have direct and immanent access to the Divine. That is sometimes comforting, sometimes healing, and sometimes a reminder that you do not have to keep trying to earn love—you can access it, always.”
― Hillary L. McBride, The Wisdom of Your Body: Finding Healing, Wholeness, and Connection through Embodied Living

“There isn’t a version of me that could’ve looked away from you.”
― Yael van der Wouden, The Safekeep

“She had made the kitchen a lovely place. Isabel could cry at it: at how a room could be made, and left behind, and turn terrible by way of absence. How a space could miss a person.”
― Yael van der Wouden, The Safekeep