Xilaii

“You could drown in two inches of water. Maybe grief was the same.”
― Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half

“Nothing is ever really wasted, she believed sensibly, even one's childhood, and then each year, one summer morning, the warm wind would come down the city street where she walked and she would be touched with the little cold thought: I have let more time go by.”
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

“It is the things you believe which make you human. Good things and bad things, it's all the same.”
― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

“Sometimes you don't know you're going to throw a grenade until you've already pulled the pin.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility