Victoria

“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“But what-if is different once you have kids, because all of a sudden, everything leading up to their births, those choices, those realities are set in stone. Because if things had been even a little different, they might not exist, and that is the one possibility you cannot bear.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Brothers Hawthorne

“She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live. She read books as one would breathe ether, to sink in and die.”
― Annie Dillard, The Living

“Death isn’t frightening when weighed against an insignificant existence.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night