Deborah Alice

“You need to stop clinging to the notion that there is only one right path. You’ll waste half your time panicking you’re not on it, and the rest backtracking to find it.”
― Joe Abercrombie, The Devils

“Nice pen.”
”It’s the most beautiful pen I know, I always carry it with me because I want them to know that I love them”, the troll says.
”Who?”
”The letters.”
― Fredrik Backman, Sebastian and the Troll

“This was what it took, I realized, to be something that survived. Not just constancy, or strength. But—like the ever-flowing river—to engulf everything that came your way and move swiftly on as though it had never been.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Dead-End Memories: Stories

“I’d always believed I didn’t take up a lot of space in this world—that it hardly mattered whether I was here or not. When a person left, the people around them got used to their absence. That was true enough. But when I pictured the world without me, and the people I loved living on in it, I couldn’t help but feel like crying.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Dead-End Memories: Stories