ASHLEY

“It feels wrong that I am the one making the choice, because that isn’t what it feels like to me. It feels like I chose you, and kept choosing you, but over the decades you stopped choosing me.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Train

“what was love if it wasn’t nursing someone else’s pain as if it were your own?”
― Elif Shafak, 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World

“On a spectrum of darkness, there was no bleaker shade than grief-tinted guilt.”
― Samantha Sotto Yambao, The Elsewhere Express

“There was something strangely comforting in the way different cultures had arrived at similar customs and melodies, and in how, all around the world, people were being rocked in the arms of loved ones in their moments of distress.”
― Elif Shafak, 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World