Mariana

“Making people leave her before they chose to go anyway. Same result in the end, because everybody left eventually, but it hurt less. That was what life was, choosing the way that hurt less.”
― Holly Jackson, The Reappearance of Rachel Price

“But life cannot be experienced one emotion at a time. It is a tapestry of sensation, a braided rope of feeling. We must allow for reflection even when we suffer. We must reach for compassion even when we triumph. If you spend your days waiting for your sorrows to end so that you might finally live” – he shook his head – “you will die an impatient man.”
― Tahereh Mafi, All This Twisted Glory

“My love for her is the closest thing I have to religion.”
― Laura Nowlin, If Only I Had Told Her

“The reality is, what you imagined will never happen, and what you remembered is already done”
― Laura Nowlin, If Only I Had Told Her