Elicia

“Silence and sadness are not the same things. And I wish more people understood that, is all.”
― David Arnold, I Loved You in Another Life

“I kissed her forehead and felt glad for her life—so odd and singular, so strangely overlapped with my own—and glad for her death, the only one I had ever known to be correct. “Go as a river,” I whispered to her, as Wil might have done, and, I swear, I felt her spirit rise.”
― Shelley Read, Go as a River

“I’ve never understood people who are uncomfortable with silence, but I have to think they weren’t very comfortable in the first place. The absence of noise is the presence of mind, a body’s place to breathe.”
― David Arnold, I Loved You in Another Life

“Readers make their own personal connections to words, irrespective of the writer's intentions, and each reader gains something unique.”
― Michiko Aoyama, What You Are Looking for Is in the Library