Rachel

“No. I know grief. You don't forget details. It's the opposite. Details torment you. They swirl through your mind in a relentless, agonizing loop until you think you'll go mad. The phone call you let go to voicemail because you were too busy reading a book. The offhandedness of that last text message. The endless, haunting, unchangeable dance of all that was said and unsaid as life pushes you further from the opportunity you lost to make things right.”
― Emma Grey, Pictures of You

“you don’t ever recover from losing someone you love—even the ones you leave behind because you’re better off without them.”
― Jodi Picoult, Mad Honey

“His love for me hadn't been motivation enough to reach his full potential. His hatred, though? That made him capable of anything.”
― Layne Fargo, The Favorites

“Mom likes to call them my "angels," but I worry that takes away their humanity and their nonreligious capacity for love and compassion they showed a stranger.”
― Javier Zamora, Solito