Keiley Tappon

“He was a grim testament to a truth I knew but refused to acknowledge: that it was possible to suffer devastating, incomprehensible loss and continue to live, to breathe, to pump blood around your body and supply oxygen to your brain.”
― Krystal Sutherland, House of Hollow

“I’ve lived a charmed life. Maybe I never understood that until now.”
― Lisa Wingate, Before We Were Yours

“I think, as a species, we have a desire to believe that we’re living at the climax of the story. It’s a kind of narcissism. We want to believe that we’re uniquely important, that we’re living at the end of history, that now, after all these millennia of false alarms, now is finally the worst that it’s ever been, that finally we have reached the end of the world.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility

“nothing seems to horrify people so much as the idea that you might rush the grieving process even as their tolerance for the topic dwindles—”
― Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People